The Editing Podcast

Louise and Denise discuss 5 tools that will help any editor or proofreader work more efficiently.

• Consistency checking and style enforcement
• Text expanders
• Macros
• Social media schedulers
• Your body clock

• 10 killer editing macros for writers and editors: theeditingpodcast.captivate.fm/episode/editing-macros
• Buffer: buffer.com
• Free editing macros by Paul Beverly: archivepub.co.uk/Macros.html
• How to check a novel with PerfectIt 5 and The Chicago Manual of Style: louiseharnbyproofreader.com/blog/how-to-check-a-novel-with-perfectit-5-and-the-chicago-manual-of-style
• PerfectIt: intelligentediting.com
• PhraseExpress: www.phraseexpress.com
• SmarterQueue: smarterqueue.com
• Text Expander: textexpander.com

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

• Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
• Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We explore a manageable way of reviewing our businesses and planning for change by focusing on two key questions: What's the one thing we've done that works, and what's the one change we could make that would make life easier?

• The one thing we've done that works
• Whether we can do more of it
• What we can learn from it
• The one change we could make that would make life easier

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

• Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
• Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We discuss editorial humility and the question we should ask ourselves at the start of every project: Who’s the boss of the book?

• Why the author is the boss of their book
• The kinds of changes we make
• Explaining the why of our edits
• Working with anxious authors
• Discovering the root of the author's worries
• Sample editing to reassure both parties
• Establishing the terms of service
• How editors provide services, not products
• When editors do get to be the boss
• 'Humbly, your copyeditor' (Liz Jones, Responsive Editing)

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

• Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
• Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We discuss the 8 reference resources that we regularly dip into when we're writing and editing for business.

• Penguin Guide to Punctuation: RL Trask
• Punctuation: A guide for editors and proofreaders: Gerard M-F Hill
• English Grammar in Use: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book: Raymond Murphy
• Your House Style: Styling your words for maximum impact: Christina Thomas
• Troublesome Words: Bill Bryson
• Everybody Writes: Ann Handley
• Hack the Buyer Brain: Kenda Macdonald
• On Writing: Stephen King
• Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: Benjamin Dreyer

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

• Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
• Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Love Twitter for engaging with other editorial and language professionals? We've got one tip for you: Don't engage with content you hate.

• How Google's algorithm works
• How X/Twitter's algorithm works
• Why tweeting about content you hate makes it more visible on X/Twitter and the web
• Why tweeting about content you hate means you're assisting the creator with marketing
• Using X/Twitter to elevate the content you love and the causes you care about

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Writing a business book? Answer these five questions to make sure you're on the right track.

• writing regularly
• niche target audiences
• building a reader base
• authority and credibility
• timeliness considerations

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Learn 5 tips on how to show rather than tell potential clients about your editing skills and knowledge.

• Booklets that perform like gifts
• Papers that offer authoritative analyses
• Audio that creates emotional connections
• Video that demonstrates how-to solutions
• Blog posts that make you findable

• That White Paper Guy

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We're celebrating Episode 100 with podcasting tips for editors and proofreaders!

• Creating an episode – what's involved
• How long podcasting takes
• Efficiency strategies
• Working with a partner
• The costs of podcasting
• Accessibility challenges

• Captivate (affiliate link)  
• Audacity (free audio editing software)

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We discuss some of the things we’ve learned about examining the words we use and the way we behave in shared editorial spaces.

• Familiarising ourselves with the rules of that space
• Acknowledging that our political, professional and ideological positions are not going to be the same as everyone else’s
• Recognizing the potential diversity of our editorial spaces
• Saying hello and introducing ourselves first
• Being prepared to be challenged
• Owning our words if we're challenged
• Acknowledging that intention not to hurt doesn’t absolve us of the responsibility for that hurt.
• Being prepared to feel uncomfortable
• Accepting our privilege without getting our knickers in a knot!
• How it's for the white, cis, straight etc people to do the work

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Find out why standards are core to professional practice for any editor or proofreader who wants to be fit for purpose and trusted by clients.

• how professional standards are defined
• why they’re important for editors and proofreaders
• who’s setting them
• the tools some organisations are using to set standards and ensure that editorial practitioners demonstrate and uphold them.

• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
• List of editorial societies

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/