Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Excludes workers whose primary duty is editing copy. ”. Grammarly offers a succinct explanation of how a copy editor approaches content: The tasks include checking written material for grammar, spelling, style and punctuation issues before it’s prepared for proofreading. What’s the difference? Do all the links work?

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Constant Content

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This month’s writer success story profiles Erin MacDonald, one of our go-to writers for all things retail—and beyond. Writer Erin MacDonald with Constant Content General Manager Rasanga Weerasinghe, when he visited the UK in 2022. When I need to take time off, I have the flexibility to do that since I’m a freelance writer.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Whether you’re a seasoned freelance writer or a new writer with no experience, freelance writing jobs that pay are still plentiful in 2022, 2023, and beyond — if: You know where to look… You know how to promote yourself… And you know how to differentiate yourself from your fellow writers. That’s where we come in.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 16, 2023

So, in no particular order… Content Writer A freelance content writer creates engaging, relevant, and informative digital content in the form of blog posts, social media posts, website articles, or ebooks. Hence, the high-demand for great content writers. How Much Can I Make Freelancing as a Content Writer?

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ProBlogger

MAY 26, 2011

Blogging can feel like a long, hard road—especially when you’re starting out. And even when you’re a little way down that blogging road, it can still be tough. You might be spending two or three hours a day on blogging—writing content, answering comments, building up friendships on Twitter and Facebook.

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Top Content Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re a writer, you must edit and revise your work at some point in the creation process. First drafts are rarely perfect, even when written by experienced professional writers. No matter how great of a writer you are, typos will slip in and mistakes will be made. It just comes with the territory.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 18, 2022

Almost every writer I know has a love-hate relationship with their writing program, whether it’s Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, or a yellow legal pad. Many writers pay thousands of dollars for freelance editorial help before they publish. Scrivener is great for drafting but has limited formatting capabilities. Voice Narration.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Unfortunately for you and your readers, writing mistakes are like speed bumps on the blog post open highway. Darren looks happy in his bio photograph because he makes money blogging. The bespectacled reader decides to read Darren’s blog instead of another blog advice site. Your blog has inconsistencies.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Being a freelance writer for the fashion industry is an exciting idea. Fashion writers play a vital role in the industry because they help fashion businesses communicate their messages and educate the public about trends, styles, and beauty. There are many ways you can work as a fashion writer. SimplyHired. ContentWriting Jobs.

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Grammar Underground

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

What the writer should have written — or, more precisely, what the copy editor should have caught — was that wretched should have been retched. The disheartening thing about this error is that it appeared almost 300 pages into an otherwise very well copy edited book.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

I was inspired to write this post after reading a piece by the Blog Tyrant a few weeks ago. A learning disability can hamper your blogging practice. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic.

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Grammar Underground

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By traditional copy editor standards, they should be “chaise longue” and “champing at the bit.” Yet for decades, careless American writers have glossed over that last word and assumed it was the English word “lounge.” For years, every time I saw “chaise lounge” or “chomping at the bit” in an article I was editing, I changed it.

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Grammar Underground

AUGUST 14, 2023

Copy editors notice a lot of little stuff that other people might not. The online news sites that continue to nudge out traditional news outlets often contain tiny hints that they’re being produced by people who aren’t as well versed in language and style as older forms of media. Is is a verb and it is a pronoun.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Look for existing conversations around your topics: in blog posts and comments, in a Facebook writing group, in news coverage, and more. In case you’re not already familiar with Scrivener; it’s a paid-for piece of software that many fiction and non-fiction writers use as an alternative to a word processor.

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Smart Blogger

MAY 4, 2023

Content marketing , on the other hand, is “inbound” marketing that aims at attracting new customers by offering content on the company website or blog. Our flour company Millmeier, for instance, could post one new article weekly on anything related to working with organic grains and flours. Time to Jump into B2B Marketing!

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Contently

JUNE 12, 2024

You have an internal marketing team, and you manage a team of freelancers—writers, designers, editors, etc. Ensure all marketing activities (blog posts, social media posts, email blasts, etc.) Workflow management: Assign tasks, track progress, and set clear deadlines for content creators, editors, and other team members.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

  Yesterday I had a wonderful time brainstorming about blogging with Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle at their joyful Editing Podcast. In fact, we dug into so many aspects of blogging, they decided to break the chat into 3 parts.     Blogging goals.   Promoting your blog.   UPDATE.

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Grammar Underground

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pretty much every writer I’ve ever edited has one habit in common: Every time they mention an organization, be it a company, a nonprofit, or a government department, they immediately insert its initials in parentheses. I understand why writers do this: We’ve all seen it done a thousand times. It seems standard.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A question that frequently comes up in writing and blogging groups I’m part of is: ‘anyone know a good editor?’. The most common reason is that many people think the job of an editor is to take their words and re-write them to sound heaps better. For a blog post or article, structure is just as important as it is for a book.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

MARCH 14, 2023

After 12 years of blogging and social media, I’m retiring! If you don’t want to lose touch, please join my free “Writer, Editor, Helper” email newsletter list , beginning in early 2023. Writer, Editor, Helper” is aimed at general readers. I still have things to say about writing and publishing. And they’re free!

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 16, 2023

In the writers’ groups where I hang out online, these queries are evergreen: How do I know if I need a copyeditor  before  I submit my work to an agent or editor? The replies and comments are typically so head-spinning in their range and variety that no one could blame writers for being confused. Note to Readers.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, a question that went something like this appeared in a Facebook group for writers seeking help from book editors: Help with this sentence please! A friend said it should be “whoever” and my editor said “whomever.” For writers striving to improve. Some advice, for whoever/whomever is interested.” How do you vote?

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Fiction or nonfiction, a writer must be scrupulous in quoting words precisely and crediting their source. Most publishing contracts hold the author liable for misrepresentations and plagiarism, but even without that legal pressure, a writer, of all people, should naturally respect the intellectual property of others. Giving Sources.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A piece of bossy advice often given to creative writers is to sweep through your manuscripts before you submit them and delete certain words. Creative writers especially must ask, Is this character or narration meant to be vigorous? The writer chooses. What’s wrong with “that”? Nothing is wrong with the word “that.” Conclusion.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

DECEMBER 16, 2022

To me it suggests that each writer, perhaps in consultation with an agent or editor, decided the best approach for their book. It’s also possible that the writer decided and no one objected in the course of preparing the book for publication. A writer then can decide whether the trend works for them. Help for Writers.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Designers and production editors use a manuscript’s word count to estimate how many pages the published book will be, taking into account how they want it to look: how large the pages will be, how much white space is wanted, whether illustrations will add to the page count, etc. What Agents and Editors Want. I have no idea.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 1, 2022

Creative writers sometimes mangle grammar on purpose or get creative with punctuation. commenters told a writer that “breathe deep” was incorrect, as opposed to “breathe deeply.” Writers are often told that simple tenses are more dynamic than progressive ones, and progressive tenses begin with a form of “to be.” Simple past.].

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The Subversive Copy Editor

OCTOBER 22, 2022

You can see that even without a defined grammatical function, interjections are as useful as any other part of speech and especially useful to creative writers. Chicago style will serve a writer well. This post originally appeared at The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on July 19, 2022, © University of Chicago.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Georgina: Like a lot of authors that you've interviewed, I always wanted to be a writer as a child, and I was that kid with the desk in her bedroom, who would sit there and write books, even if it was just on notebook paper. Now, with Bookouture, they will organize the blog tour for each author. Or I'll do a separate blog tour.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

APRIL 12, 2021

Editors and agents who express a font preference most often specify 12-point Times New Roman, an eye-soothing serifed font that is readily available on devices and supports a wide range of special characters. For instance, they might require writers not to put any identifying information on the manuscript so the judges can read without bias.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Types of Content formats that Work Best for lead generation: Blog posts and articles. Kenneth Waldman is a freelance writer and copy editor. Some formats generate more leads than others so it is crucial you understand your target market and the types of formats that are most effective in generating those leads. .

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The Subversive Copy Editor

MARCH 11, 2022

One of my favorite MS Word tricks allows a novelist (or any book writer) to view and organize their chapters in the Navigation pane (an option under the View tab). This post originally appeared at  The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on December 23, 2021, © University of Chicago.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

MAY 10, 2022

Most writers are rightly oblivious to style choices at this level. It also may entail explaining to writers why some words after a colon are capped, and others are not. This post originally appeared at The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on February 15, 2022, © University of Chicago. We meet at Josephina’s, period.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If that sounds unhelpful, read on to see what real-life published writers are doing these days. But then I ran across a  sensitive and instructive blog post  by fiction editor Louise Harnby explaining why “front-loaded” dialogue tags are scarce in fiction and how writers can use them to best advantage.

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Make a Living Writing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In the old days of journalism, headlines may have been left up to the copy editor to determine but in this digital day and age, writers should pay as much attention as possible to coming up with hooky headlines to grab their readers’ attention. I know that in the past, editors wrote headlines for many of us.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 29, 2023

Check it out for free or get 25% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna John Matthew Fox is an award-winning short story writer, a developmental editor, writing teacher and blogger. His latest book is The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments. John has courses for writers here.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 15, 2018

Yet most of the information we encounter is filtered and reinterpreted through a series of books, blogs, infographics, explainer videos , articles, and, of course, social media updates. Having worked as a writer, journalist , and editor for many years, I’ve learned the hard way to be extremely skeptical when researching.

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