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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Arrant Pedantry

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The ensuing discussion prompted a friend and fellow editor, Iva Cheung , to make the following cartoon , which she dedicated to me: (Follow the link to see the mouseover text and bonus.). It may indeed sound ridiculous, but my coworker is far from the only editor or writer to have grappled with this problem. ” But was that right?

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Grammar Underground

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The nostalgia hit me recently when I read this sentence about digital nomads in the New York Times Magazine : “Then, from a chaise longue on the beach, they can register a business with the tap of a button.” Outside the New York Times, “longue” sightings are rare these days. More and more, I see “chaise lounge” instead.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cover fashion trends and styles for magazines. Work as a journalist for fashion magazines, newspapers, and online publications. Previous job postings include: Style News Editor Assistant to Editor-in-Chief Fashion Magazine Women’s Lifestyle Commerce Writer. Write about fashion on your personal blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

If you’ve ever turned pages of your favorite magazine on a device like a Kindle or a Nook, you’ve used a digital flipbook. Think about it this way: If you were in a doctor’s office and had the option between reading a newsletter on fashion or flipping through a magazine on fashion, which would you pick? Translation? Leave a Comment!

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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Titles of book chapters, stories, magazine and newspaper articles, television episodes, short poems, and songs are in quotation marks and headline caps: “Cyrus and Jeanette” (book chapter), “How to Fix a Flat Tire” (newspaper article), “And Still I Rise” (poem), “?’Round Round Midnight” (song), etc. should be styled consistently.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Editors of magazines and online publications also do the above when someone sends them an article or a pitch. Once the structural editor is done and you’ve made the changed they’ve recommended, that’s when it’s time to bring in a line editor (often called a copy editor).

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

And I was reading through these, and at the time I was a nonfiction proofreader and copy editor, sorting out other people's work, and I was reading these stories just going like these are—like I didn't understand the medium of short stories very well, and obviously, if you're going to start anywhere, start with Stephen King.

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ProBlogger

MAY 26, 2011

That doesn’t mean flawless (even professional authors have copy-editors) but you should know: how to construct an engaging blog post, with a gripping introduction, clear message, and strong conclusion. If you write a piece as a freelancer—whether that’s for a blog, a magazine, or a newspaper—then you get paid.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Check out various information sources such as podcasts, news sites, forums, magazines, surveys, infographics and videos. Enewsletters and online magazines. Kenneth Waldman is a freelance writer and copy editor. Choose Your Format. What format you use to deliver your content can be as important as the content itself.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

proofreading (writer/editor, copy editor, content editor, proofreader, etc.), If you want to target magazines and newspapers, Journalism Jobs is a great resource. Categories include blogging and marketing jobs (WordPress, SEO, content manager, content strategist for startups, etc.), Journalism Jobs.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 8, 2024

I feel like the word editor is so difficult because it can mean so many things. What does a developmental editor do that is different to a line editor, a copy editor, a red-marks-all-over-the-page editor? I took a copy editing class through the University of Chicago, and that was very not for me.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In that case, I decided a lack of quotation marks might be justified in a fictional character’s narration as a way to signal that “Reading shaped my dreams” is more of an allusion than a quotation from an identifiable source.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2025

Or your copy editor can check it later and make sure it's accurate, and make sure that readers can find what you're quoting. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking.

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