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August 2, 2021 by admin

6 Lessons from a Decade of Freelance Editing (Part 1)

This year marks my tenth year as a self-employed editor. It’s also the year UFE and the League of Utah Writers named me Utah’s first Editor of the Year, the year I drafted an entire book about copyediting, and the year I finally figured out how to consistently put a flash drive into a computer the right way up on the very first try. So many milestones.

So I think it’s appropriate to sit down with y’all and share some of the lessons I’ve learned in the past decade. A sort of mid-career retrospective.

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Filed Under: Editing Business Tagged With: business skills, finances, getting clients, Kristy S. Gilbert, Looseleaf Editorial & Production

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