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I hope nobody’s hungry!

Or perhaps if you ate all 30, there might be enough for one normal portion?

If one is dieting, of course, meals that are minute could be a very good idea…

PERHAPS, THOUGH, THIS BOOK’S TITLE SIMPLY NEEDED A HYPHEN

#puncutation #grammar #subeditor

I feel I have to get this off my chest - why has the word 'affected' become redundant and replaced with the seriously overused and hateful 'impacted'? I know there was always a problem with people confusing 'affect' and 'effect' but in old newspaper speak, impact was really only used when being hit by a car. Rant over, thank you for listening.

#English #language #subeditor #editor #impacted #impact #newspapers #journalism

When you’re a #Stay but also a #journalist, #editor and #subeditor, you start thinking about questions like:

Is it #StrayKids’ or #StrayKids’s?

This is very important for reasons

There was a growing group of people standing there, clustered around the stand, laughing at the magazine.

And somewhere, I like to think that sub-editor was raising a bottle of beer and thinking: Not every day. But today, we won.

We three plums. Fuck yeah. We three plums.

/end

#wethreeplums #subeditor #editorial #editor #editing #headline #christmas #hellyeah #Opera

As every sub-editor knows, this is a Tricky Situation. Art directors secretly feel that the right no. of words on any cover is none. I was once told there was ‘too much copy’ before I’d put the copy on.

I asked what the Art Director meant, and he stabbed his finger into the name of the magazine.

People think a sub-editor edits, but mostly - heroes that they are - they hustle for more words.

And in this case, the number of words was three.

Three words.

What would you do?

#subeditor

It was to be a star-studded Christmas season. There were special carol recitals, & a gala performance of The Nutcracker.

This, this was special. And the sub-editor had work to do. To make people take notice.

The problem was, the Art Director had already laid the cover out…

And the art director had left our cover-line sub-editor room for… 3 words.

#royaloperahouse #editing #subeditor #writing #christmas #headlines #music

Most satisfying thing about Mastadon is that the day after I arrived they added an "edit" button on that three-dot menu under my posts. I don't write as much as I edit myself. #editor #copyeditor #subeditor #stylebook #typos

Most satisfying thing about Mastadon is that the day after I arrived they added an "edit" button on that three-dot menu under my posts. I don't write as much as I edit myself. #editor #copyeditor #subeditor #stylebook #typos

Apparently you’re meant to do an introductory ’toot’ and use lots of hashtags so people can find things. Ok. I’m Dave. I live in #london. I’m a #subeditor on a couple of magazines. Im a big old #nerd who loves #doctorwho more than he probably should. I love #comedy. I don’t post on any site as much as I did 10 years ago.