A lot of editors charge by the hour, so people hiring them naturally wonder how long it’ll take an editor to clean up their copy. And the answer is unsatisfactory, because it’s almost universally: “It depends.”
Despite my warnings about the long and lonesome road to a life in freelance editing, you’ve gone ahead and notched your first editing client. To keep things simple, let’s imagine your former editor at the Daily Bugle has penned his…
The one certainty of freelance editing is that you will fail for a very long time before you start to succeed. Really, like 18 months to a couple years. Your 15 years on the Daily Bugle copy desk have prepared…
First thing you need to know about becoming a successful freelance editor: It has almost nothing to do with editing. How come? Because there are thousands of people out there trying to make a living as a freelance editor. All…