Writing With Amanda LeeFeb 14

I’m now active on Writers Work!

You can view my profile here:
https://writers.work/Amanda%20Lee

I’m offering professional writing + editing support for authors and businesses looking to elevate their content and polish their voice.

#WritersWork #FreelanceLife #EditingCommunity #AuthorSupport #ContentWriting #IndieAuthors #SmallBusinessOwners

Writers Work | Write Your Way to the Life You Want

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Amanda LeeFeb 14

I’m now active on Writers Work!

You can view my profile here:
https://writers.work/Amanda%20Lee

I’m offering professional writing + editing support for authors and businesses looking to elevate their content and polish their voice.

#WritersWork #FreelanceLife #EditingCommunity #AuthorSupport #ContentWriting #IndieAuthors #SmallBusinessOwners

Writers Work | Write Your Way to the Life You Want

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Scott RagleFeb 13, 2024

Looking to hear from #editors what their preferred #editingtool is. Which of these is your favorite to work with, and why? What is the advantage of one over the other? Is there a true #industrystandard or does it come down to personal or #production choice?

#finalcutpro #premierepro #davinciresolve
#editingcommunity #filmmakers #filmmaking 🎬 👨🏻‍💻

Final Cut Pro
16.7%
Adobe Premiere Pro
16.7%
DaVinci Resolve
66.7%
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Rhonda BraceyFeb 7, 2024

Writers and editors: My review of Draftsmith, the new product from Intelligent Editing (developers of PerfectIt), was published by IPEd today: https://www.iped-editors.org/february-2024/review-draftsmith-certainly-has-a-place-in-an-editors-toolbox/

Draftsmith integrates ChatGPT with Microsoft Word in a seamless way.

Although its target market is writers in the draft stages, it certainly has a place in an editor’s toolbox.

(IPEd: Institute of Professional Editors; the professional association for Australian and New Zealand editors)

#editingcommunity #edibuddies

Review: “Draftsmith certainly has a place in an editor’s toolbox.” - Institute of Professional Editors Limited

IPEd member Rhonda Bracey reviews Draftsmith, the latest software from Intelligent Editing, the team behind PerfectIt.

Institute of Professional Editors Limited
Show threadStan CareyAug 9, 2023

A related post of mine, on language reform and prescriptivism:

"By oversimplifying the nature and aims of prescriptivism, we invite confusion, category errors, and semantic muddles"

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/four-types-of-language-prescriptivism/

#EnglishUsage #prescriptivism #editing #writing #EditorsOfMastodon #language #EditingCommunity

Four types of language prescriptivism

Prescriptivism is an approach to language centred on how it should be used. It contrasts with descriptivism, which is about describing how language is used. Prescriptivism has a bad reputation amon…

Sentence first
Stan CareyAug 9, 2023

The Atlantic published a bad critique of conscious language style guides. @EvilJoeMcVeigh takes them to task: https://andreadallover.com/2023/08/04/george-packer-and-the-atlantics-sad-defense-of-inequity/

#EnglishUsage #language #linguistics #StyleGuide #ConsciousLanguage #WritingCommunity #EditingCommunity

George Packer and the Atlantic’s sad defense of inequity

Content warning: This post is about harmful language and it contains words that are used to dehumanize people. Please take caution. In April 2023, the Atlantic published a 2,500-word opinion piece …

...And Read All Over
Catherine DunnAug 9, 2023
Now taking bookings for NOVEMBER. #writingcommunity #editing #editingcommunity #proofreading
Catherine DunnJul 7, 2023
On the right are my work books; on the left are copies of books I’ve worked on that authors or publishers have sent me. It’s a minuscule proportion of the total, but I treasure all of them! #EditingCommunity #iLoveMyJob
thinkStoryJun 29, 2023

Publishing Package Contest for Women of Color Authors: Taking submissions for this year's contest now

"Since launching the contest in 2018, seven extraordinary women authors have won a publishing package..."

#SheWritesPress and #SparkPress
Toward Equality in Publishing
Contest details:
https://shewritespress.com/equality-in-publishing/

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmEditing #EditingCommunity #Bookstodon

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thinkStoryJun 13, 2023

oh my god.

'#Commas and #Periods with #QuotationMarks': A History Lesson and Explanation of the Conflict between Countries [subhead my addition]
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/commas-and-periods-with-quotation-marks/

#AmEditing #EditingCommunity #CMoS #ChicagoManualOfStyle

Commas and Periods with Quotation Marks

According to The Chicago Manual of Style, commas and periods are almost always placed before a closing quotation mark, “like this,” rather than after, “like this”. This traditional style has persisted even though it’s no longer universally followed outside of the United States and isn’t entirely logical.

CMOS Shop Talk