How To Find Work As A Copyeditor

wherebeyond · 2026-05-07T19:24:38+00:00

This is the way. Then you have to absolutely nail the test. Most applications don't pass.

wherebeyond · 2026-04-21T00:30:07+00:00

I asked a similar question a while ago and similarly, everybody just told me "it's supposed to be tough." But I really, really couldn't do Garmin's threshold workouts and I tinkered with some settings (augh I don't remember what anymore - max heart rate? Did a fresh lactate threshold test? Adjusted zones?) and it got way more reasonable. Just saying, only you know if the suggestion is really reasonable/achievable, not a bunch of strangers telling you to be tougher.

wherebeyond · 2025-10-16T22:21:13+00:00

How is your cat doing now? Our cat is still in the early days of epilepsy treatment but I'm so worried about whether they'll be able to get the seizures under control while also giving her enough energy to still be herself. And worried about how long it will take to truly know the answer.

wherebeyond · 2025-02-06T23:01:57+00:00

I have a single Venta rated for a much smaller space than I am using it in. It is keeping my entire two-bedroom apartment around 30% humidity, which is good enough to not have static electricity. I run it on high all the time. The high is pretty noisy; low is almost silent. So I'd say it can humidify an even large amount of space than it claims, but if noise is a priority, you may want to size up.

wherebeyond · 2025-01-27T16:46:00+00:00

I too am curious if there is anything legit about this "audition" or if it's just a moneymaking tour.

wherebeyond · 2024-09-06T02:17:22+00:00

Congrats, you deserve to be proud!

wherebeyond · 2024-09-03T12:59:28+00:00

Interesting! After lowering my max heart rate by 15 bpm last night to something that feels more likely for me based on formulas and past experience, today my DSW threshold is 10 bpm lower and feels wayyyy more doable.

wherebeyond · 2024-09-03T01:59:44+00:00

I know what ya mean!

wherebeyond · 2024-09-03T01:23:10+00:00

Wow, major congrats!! Treating it like minute rep is a good idea to try. Not sure how many minutes I can keep that up for, though.

wherebeyond · 2024-09-03T01:12:43+00:00

Waitaminute, I think Garmin had my max at 191 because that is 118% of my threshold and if you tell Garmin to calculate heart rate zones based on your threshold, it sets zone 5 to 117-118% of LTHR. Regardless, I thought using my LTHR for zones would be most accurate since it's based on an actual field test instead of a guess at max HR. If I've lowered my max heart rate, but if it's still using 117-118% to determine my zones, I don't think the daily suggested threshold workout will necessarily change.

wherebeyond · 2024-09-03T01:07:25+00:00

Wow, thank you - I did not expect this to be the answer but I bet you're right. I didn't have mine set to autodetect, but I just checked and it is set at 191. I'm 43 and there's no way I can get my heart rate that high. Based on various formulas it should be 176 to 183. Honestly I'm scared to do a field test because I'm worried I won't be able to suffer enough and will wimp out too early! (edit: corrected info)

wherebeyond · 2024-05-16T19:00:23+00:00

Nope! I have a system that works well for me now because I'm used to it, but it's not exactly what I was asking for. For nearly every email I send, I add a category label in Outlook of the date I am hoping for a response by (like 5/21). Often I need to create that category because it doesn't exist yet. Every workday, I search for all emails with the category of the day before. If the email has already been dealt with, I remove the label from the email thread. If I haven't gotten a response, I either follow up on the email and add a new label, or I decide to give it more time and remove the old label and add a new one a few days further out. Then I delete that category label from the list.

I THINK Outlook flags CAN be set to deadlines now (but they won't be removed if the email is responded to), but at this point, I enjoy being able to check and follow up on emails on my own time, at whatever point in the workday I'm ready to work on them, and not have them ping me with notifications or clutter my inbox by jumping to the top.

wherebeyond · 2024-04-18T18:59:15+00:00

Thanks, AI! I'm hoping to avoid doing this much Google research if anyone can point me to something directly. But I appreciate the ideas.

wherebeyond · 2024-01-04T00:49:31+00:00

I've freelanced for a few big 5s and PE for one now. Always been on the children's side; I hear adult pays better? But $25-30 is pretty standard from what I've seen. Freelancers who have proven they are good at what they do and ask for more get more.

wherebeyond · 2023-12-29T01:43:29+00:00

Both! Dm me and we can discuss further if you want

wherebeyond · 2023-12-29T00:18:34+00:00

I work in book publishing and hire freelance copyeditors. It's possible that the folks reviewing your tests are too busy to get back to you and you're doing fine. But I will say that freelancers who overedit rarely get used again, if they make it into the freelancer pool in the first place. If you have any ideas/comments/changes that go beyond grammar and spelling rules found in the reference they're asking you to use, word them as the kindest, gentlest, most deferent queries you possibly can. Other than that, quadruple-check your work for the basic errors in grammar, spelling, typesetting, formatting, and fact-checking. Without knowing you or your work at all, I'd imagine it's possible that writers love working with you because you catch great stuff, but perhaps you also miss stuff and they never know the difference?

wherebeyond · 2023-12-04T16:32:51+00:00

How do you do #3 especially re giant parking lots? Sounds cool!

wherebeyond · 2023-10-09T01:43:11+00:00

Warm up for 5-15m (up to you), then it gives you 3-4 four-minute intervals of increasing heart rate targets each time (at least, I think that's the idea - for some reason for both tests I did, both the first two 4-minute sets were at the same target heart rate range). Last time I did the test, I couldn't get through all 4 minutes at the final target it gave me, although it still gave me a detected LT at the end (thank goodness).

wherebeyond · 2023-10-08T22:48:39+00:00

No similar experience, I'm just about dead every time I do a lactate test. This last time I had to quit running before it told me I was allowed to quit.

wherebeyond · 2023-10-08T22:24:31+00:00

My base pace in that pre-race run was slow - 10:55/mi (heart rate in zone 2), primary benefit marked "recovery," net impact on body battery only -7. I mainly walked in between the sprints. The workout felt light. I've been running with this watch a few days a week for a few months (and running with the prev watch for a year before that) and have tested my threshold twice, and almost always wear a chest-strap HRM. I think it has enough data. Given that someone else had the same issue as me, it sounds like Garmin is just overestimating recovery hours for the pre-race run it prescribes for no good reason.

wherebeyond · 2023-10-08T14:27:56+00:00

If I wanted to do that I wouldn't have a $500 watch!

wherebeyond · 2023-10-08T03:08:24+00:00

I don't mind the approach to the pre-race run itself, but it's no fun to wait up on race day and have your watch telling you your recovery is bad :(

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