Michael J.

A hot hot dog sounds good right now 🌭 🤤

I think I’d lose it, too, but nobody would hear me at my desk at home. Then I’d retreat to the woods as a reprieve (and listen for any falling trees as an act of empathy).

The fortune’s description from a fortune cookie: “You will be unusual successful in business.”

I have mixed feelings about this one.

#CopyEditors #Proofreaders

I love #CMOS wording for certain words 👇 This one’s so corrupt.

preventive. Although the corrupt form *preventative* is fairly common, the strictly correct form is *preventive*.

#AmEditing #Copyeditors #edibuddies

Ah! That’s a nasty good find 🥴🙂‍↔️

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

👍 Indeedily I am.

I grew up with Crash, but I try all sorts o’ vidjagames. I last Platinumed Elden Ring; boy was that a grind and burnout.

Keep nerdin’ on!
I will! 🤜🤛

Every year I get a severe itch to play Skyrim. Every year I fold! It’s a worthy cathartic and mental release amidst editing, having taken an arrow to the knee, and other subquests.

Countless playthroughs. But my favorite repeat is an axe-wielding, shoeless frost queen Nord named Snøw.

Only a weekish later and it’s Sunday, but same! Hi! 👋

😶*breathes in… and gets the feels*🙂‍↔️

When you finish a massive manuscript, return it, and then wait in anticipation…

Then receive a message (a good one), payment (good payment!), and the feels (the best feels).

Ah, the life that lives.
#AmEditing

But what about the bees? 🐝 😭

There goes all our bees 🐝

I was just never afraid.
I was never just afraid.

🦹🏼‍♂️ It amazes me how delicate the ordering of words can be, how profound the meaning can change with one… little… movement 🙀 #AmEditing

Same! I checked just to be certain, as there are so many “departures” from the 17th edition and now I’m anxious and stuff.
Lo and behold✨

Thanks, Tanya! I appreciate you putting all of this together.

Oh! I’ve just stumbled across this. May I be added to the standard, please? (I’ll still be following the queer pack 🫶) 🙏

More magic! This is excellent. Thank you so much 🙏 I’ve put this at the top of my to-do list for when I have the time to save time.

What is this magic?! I believe you have just conjured a new need in my life! It must be gotten. Thank you for the spark 🙏

Sometimes I enjoy going through my lists of questionable hyphens or their lack of. It’s like a puzzle, and I like puzzles 🧩 #AmEditing

I just discovered another departure from the 17th edition #ChicagoManualOfStyle. Scholastic Grades! I'm glad this didn't come up for me after the 18th came out. Here's an example:

#CMOS17: I mostly got Cs and Bs in high school.

#CMOS18: In college, I got mostly A's.

True facts. #AmEditing 🎓

“She was the librarian.” What a legendary addition to her tale. My father introduced me to the song she so inspired; it’ll stay with me forever. Rest in peace, Alice.