San Diego Professional Editors Network: An organization of pro editors and writers who love words, print publishing, and online media.
San Diego, CA
Joined October 2009
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Writing puzzle #18.
Edit this down to three words:
"You should always try to cut the unnecessary or redundant words that don't add meaning or personality to your writing."
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If you're curious about what a career in #copyediting is like, look no further than #UCSDExtension instructor @lourdesvenard. An editor for 30+ years and an instructor for nearly a decade, she's an excellent resource for all things #editing. (@sdPEN) bit.ly/3b4J5Ia
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Happy 63rd Birthday to Bill Watterson! The man who started it all and gave life to a little boy and his tiger. Thank you for the countless hours of entertainment you have given us. 🎉 👦🏼🐯#CalvinandHobbes #BillWatterson
What’s your favorite Calvin and Hobbes memory?
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Tip: Italicize a movie title when you mention it in the text of your paper. Happy #FathersDay!
ALT The movie title, Father of the Bride, is italicized in this example of a sentence in an APA Style paper: "The 1950 movie Father of the Bride was remade in 1991 with Steve Martin in the title role."
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Anne Frank would have turned 92 today. If the United States had approved her father's visa application, she could be an old lady in Brooklyn, celebrating with her family and showing her great-grandkids the diary that told the story of how she got here.
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Hi! Please stop using “womxn” to be “inclusive” of trans women. It makes us feel unwelcome, by implying we’re not “women” and you need to make up a new word to include us and cis women.
There’s a perfectly good word that includes trans and cis women. It’s just “women.” Thanks.
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My partner made a wall of books for me. It was a labour of love. Everyday for last few months Ive been at this desk writing a book. Today, it’s finished. It was also a labour of love.
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Question for bookish twitter: Where do you get your recommendations for new books? Are there reviewers you love or pages you check or bookstagrammers you trust? Librarians or word-of-mouth or book club? Or do you just find books organically?
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Writing tip: have a document called “deleted parts.” Anytime you’re writing or editing and delete a line, put it in there. You may find a way to use it later. #amwriting
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My HARSH WRITING ADVICE is this: Write a fast and terrible first draft, then put it down and walk away. Next time you read it, you'll see that all the baloney has risen to the top so you can scoop it off and replace it. Everything worth reading is done in the re-write. The end.
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Word of the day is the 16th-century 'eyeservant': an employee/child who only applies themselves when their boss/parent is looking.
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I once named a novel character Will, then changed my mind a few chapters in and tried to change it to George or somesuch using "Find and Replace". Picture, if you George, the results
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“The best letters, given the rules of job applications, succeed in rendering entirely secret the full truth of the writer’s selfhood.” theparisreview.org/blog/2021…