{"id":297,"date":"2022-01-06T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/?p=297"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:02:51","slug":"jan-6-2022-nina-shoroplova-the-five-elements-of-editing-the-written-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/2022\/01\/06\/jan-6-2022-nina-shoroplova-the-five-elements-of-editing-the-written-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 6 2022 &#8211; Nina Shoroplova &#8211; The Five Elements of Editing the Written Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/75371727_3285535111516684_4596653422437990400_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/75371727_3285535111516684_4596653422437990400_n.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/75371727_3285535111516684_4596653422437990400_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Nina Shoroplova &#8211; January 6, 2022<\/h4>\n<p>YouTube Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8uY4FHE7Dm8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8uY4FHE7Dm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understand the five elements of editing the written word\u2014clear structural shape, accurate facts, consistent style, correct grammar, and appealing presentation. Ease the early stages of writing a book to make the process go more smoothly, be faster, more intentional, and more enjoyable. Realize that MS Word is the industry standard for writing your book manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>As a book editor, mostly of nonfiction, Nina Shoroplova is able to assess the best structure to support a\u00a0story, while also ensuring that the detail delivering it is accurate. Providing structural editing, substantive editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, and proofreading, Nina has edited an average of fifteen book manuscripts a year for the last eight years, plus advising on a\u00a0myriad of shorter pieces.<\/p>\n<p>With a BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University, Nina has been editing the written word since the early 1980s in a range of capacities: newsletter publisher, correspondent for the federal government, and editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Shoroplova &#8211; January 6, 2022 YouTube Link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8uY4FHE7Dm8 Understand the five elements of editing the written word\u2014clear structural shape, accurate facts, consistent style, correct grammar, and appealing presentation. Ease the early stages of writing a book to make the process go more smoothly, be faster, more intentional, and more enjoyable. Realize that MS Word&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-authors-talks","category-26","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}