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A hopeless semantic. Copyeditor, line editor, proofreader, alt-text writer, tentacle counter. (she/her). www.geckoedit.com linktr.ee/kirkldk 🦎🏳️‍🌈🧠🌶️🖖🏻💙📚👀✍️🔥 #amediting Scritcher in Chief to Peaches and Alabaster. 🐈🐈
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My latest @theguardian.com Books cartoon

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Who'd have thought that in the twenty-first century we'd excitedly volunteer—even pay—to put ourselves in virtual panopticons to improve our own productivity? #AmCoworking #Zoom #VirtualCoworking #CapitalistDystopia

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#Caturday

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is why you don't get invited to parties, M-W. Why is one closed and the other open?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just looked up whether "butt cheeks" is an open or closed compound because this is my professional, grown-up job. #AmEditing

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The two rules that I wish I could impose on authors (and people upstream from me, like acquisitions and developmental editors) are two sides of the same coin: 1. The author should finish writing before copyediting begins. 2. The author should stop writing and rewriting after copyediting starts.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Any second now, a handyman is going to come and caulk my deck. Hard to get any work done with distractions like that. #AmTryingToEdit

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry I'm late for work. My cat wanted to hold my hand. #StetPet

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever edited the continuity fever dream/nightmare that is Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory, you are a god of editing and I hope you've recovered. My brain hurts but I'm here for the ride. #AmReading 📚💙

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I've caught the holey trinity of errors today and it's not even lunch time yet. shit ➡ shirt arse ➡ ass (specifically a donkey) backside ➡ back side #AmEditing

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

I considered not fixing my own typo in some alt text I was writing just to bring a bit of joy to the client's day. "Long-sleeved shit" #AmEditing #AmWriting #AltText

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. We’re hugely honoured to publish HEART LAMP. Our deepest thanks to the judges and, indeed, to all of you who have read and loved this extraordinary collection.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

I'm very excited to share this...for the past couple of months, I've been working on a Radio documentary about Doctor Who, the LGBTQ+ Community, and Wales. 📷 BBC Radio Wales: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... * Monday at 18:30 * Tuesday at 06:31 * Sunday at 19:00

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

It's not smut if you haven't used the words "feral" and "pistoning". #AmEditing

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

submitted 37 days ago • 155 comments

Editor struggle #5433: Managing tenses and timelines when editing time travel stories. Ooer, my brane. #AmEditing #ScienceFiction

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Mayday = HELP ME May Day = Help me... pick these flowers

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

7 basic things every professionally trained proofreader should be fixing before they dive into the manuscript: - two spaces to one - straights to curlies - ^l to ^p - inconsistent . . . - manual tabs - spaces around dashes - missing, wrong, and mixed ' ' and " " #AmEditing #HireAProfessional

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Have you given your cat an ice cube today? #Catsky 🐈

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to need therapy to process the relentless and exquisite onslaught of all the feels from this manuscript I'm proofreading. #amediting

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I have no interest in that TERF who should rot in her moldy castle & leave people alone. And by now, anyone who's willingly signed on to work with her knows exactly what they're supporting. Shame on them. I certainly won't be watching whatever dreck she has hurked up.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

People ask me what tech I use to create my meticulously structured novels. Well, here, for example is the tech behind Authority.

submitted 62 days ago • 12 comments

I will not get into it here bc social media is where nuance goes to die. But I think there's room to both be disappointed in Murderbot casting *and* to recognize that nonbinary folks (like me) can look any damn way we want and I wish cis ppl would stop saying we "present" as one thing or another.

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

Alabaster wants to know if you've completed the Cold Harbor file yet. #Catsky #Severance #Management #Supervisor

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This thread is both hilarious and horrifying. One might even say it is full of... pain.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

What are you working on? I'm gleefully rummaging through primary sources from the early 1900s to verify usage during a proofread of a historical novel that has me on the edge of my seat. #AmEditing #BestJobEver 📚💙

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Catching zeroes that should be Os is one of my favorite things. And this is also why Times New Roman is not ideal for proofreading. #AmEditing #CatchOfTheDay

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

When you're so dedicated to your proofread of a book about the Camino that you walk part of the Camino halfway through the edit. This might be my most amazing #Stetwalk so far. #AmEditing

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments