Land on Demand Editing Proofreading Indexing

along with some comments on the world of a freelance editor

Sunday, May 18, 2025

2025: Why I Won't Retire

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From Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, as paraphrased by another author: Individuals are happiest when they are fully immersed in activities th...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Well, I'm All Better

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 What a difference a year makes, in lots of ways.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Room 8166

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Posting from a hospital bed. Open ventral hernia repair with component separation. Complex gut reconstruction following the aftermath of my ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

A rare musical interlude

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Also, in case you were wondering what the back of my head looked like. https://youtu.be/Sdvn0KroW2U
Sunday, February 26, 2023

If You're a Press's Managing Editor, Be Glad You Didn't Receive This Email

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It's not often that I go off like this, but rarely are rancid pieces of meat dropped in my lap by publishers that should know better. ++...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

"Are You Jewish, or Are You Just Here?"

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Well, right now I just feel like posting something. We have a dear friend staying with us who's enduring their own struggles but getting...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

RANT Deliverance! (with apologies to Cornel West)

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Oh, the twisted road of word processing. When I began working as an editor in 1984, only one person out of about 15 or so in my employer...
Monday, February 20, 2023

insomnia

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I've been battling this beast for many years, mostly as the result of a longtime prescription given to me by a doctor who should have kn...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Copyediting: Response to Instructions

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D—: I should have this wrapped up in the next day or so. The writing is pretty clean, so thanks for that. I'll use Track Changes and als...

Response to a Copyediting Query from a Previously Slowing-Down Client

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Hi. If the "better" refers to the cleanup of my iPhone-generated headshots, anything is an improvement over the basic material. Th...

As the Late-Night Talk Show Hosts Say, "And We're Back."

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My pal at one of my publishers said I seemed like a happier person when I was posting to my blog. (I didn't bother to mention the detail...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The URL says it all

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Now here's a blogger who has probably had some second thoughts. Found this in a recent bibliography on a book about the theology of migr...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Today's Dumb Bible Paraphrasing

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The Word b ecame flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. (Jn. 1:14 MSG)
Monday, February 21, 2022

And the Occasional Personal Revelation

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Dateline, Bristol, VA; Central Appalachia, USA If you request anything down here stronger than aspirin, they notify the DEA and Interpol. 

More Questions

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  Well, this is easy. On capitalization of races, Brown is always capitalized but appears not too frequently; Black almost always; White rar...

A Coding Issue

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From the mindset of, I should be posting here, and I write enough stuff in emails that would be suitable content . This question has been ke...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Today's pet peeve

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 Which might also have been a pet peeve 10 years ago. For Chrissakes, if you're on page 160 of a 165-page book, I don't want to be r...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Copyediting query boilerplate

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For copyediting that type of volume, presuming no complicating factors, my rate is $4.75/page, with a page defined as 265 words. The project...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Changing My Mind

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I'd posted this back in spring 2020. Newsroom quandary: Should ‘black’ be capitalized? No. You're welcome. Am I allowed to change ...

Google Docs: Damn

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  Working in a Google Doc now for a national nonprofit. 1. Commenting in auto-notes allowed! 2. For the footnotes, when URL is present, a po...
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