Comments on: The Business of Editing: Schedules and Client Expectations

By: americaneditor

americaneditor — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:28:11 +0000

Yes, you can link to this article.

By: Stickler Editing

Stickler Editing — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:53:27 +0000

Without a doubt some clients are becoming quite unreasonable in the demands placed on their editors these days. Fortunately not everyone does this, but there are certainly a few that seem to hire you for one thing (i.e. editing), only to demand a million other quite unrelated things or in a worst case scenario like you mentioned, just pull out completely after you have already begun working. Great post though. May I have permission to link to this post from my editing services blog?

By: Wendy Monaghan

Wendy Monaghan — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:13:08 +0000

Another interesting, albeit gloomy, post. As an editor, I find it far more frustrating and upsetting to work to a too-tight schedule than to be underpaid. I care deeply about the quality of my work and appreciate having the time to “get it right”. (I have shared this blog on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WendyMonaghanEditingServices and via Twitter.)

By: americaneditor

americaneditor — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:46:59 +0000

I was paid for all the work I did and I was paid promptly.

By: Stephen C

Stephen C — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:48:00 +0000

Thanks for the interesting post. I’m adding you to my to read list (which unfortunately gets longer by the day). Quick question, you did not clarify if you were paid through the 2 week period of working. I assume so but just wanted to see how you handled the “business” side of editing. I work in a Latin American country and often the relationship is prized higher than the work done. Did you eat it?

By: amlees

amlees — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:52:17 +0000

Thanks. Someone sent me two whole research papers by way of a test and they said they’d pay $3 per msp, and defined the msp as the number of pages in the paper, even though the words per page were considerably more than 250, but I was sure there was a standard. (I said no; it didn’t sound like somebody I wanted to work for). I can read a long word as easily as a short one, so I don’t mind counting words, but I do object to counting undefined pages.

By: Project Chiron

Project Chiron — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:20:34 +0000

Reblogged this on Project Chiron and commented: h/t Copyediting.com

By: davidmcgowan

davidmcgowan — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:34:46 +0000

I hope you don’t mind me posting this here!

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By: Aruna Panangipally

Aruna Panangipally — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:04:50 +0000

Perhaps the client outsourced the project to a **company** in India. The company could use many editors to complete the project. That is one way the project could get done in time, without cutting corners or sacrificing quality.

By: americaneditor

americaneditor — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:13:53 +0000

The most commonly used measure is 250 words equal 1 page. However, there is nothing that requires you to use this formula. I prefer a character-based formula because I see an awful lot of words like proprioreceptors and antiinflammatory, and not a lot of the “smaller” words.