#ACESChat

Join us for the #ACESchat on Twitter!

Wanna chat about editing? ACES brings the editing community together each month on Twitter to chat about editing, exchange tips, and share a little editorial fellowship.

When are the chats?

4 p.m. Eastern on the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Upcoming Chats:

Nov. 20

Guest: Chaviva Gordon-Bennett

Topic: Integrating New Editing Styles

Description: Whether you've been asked to integrate an unexpected style preference or you've been hit mid-edit with an entirely new style guide, pivoting can be a challenge for even the most seasoned copyeditors. In this chat, we'll discuss some tactics for how to transition to new style preferences, when (and whether) to push back on change, and how to stay sane while harmonizing everything you thought you knew with everything new.

Dec. 4

Guest: Helaine Schweitzer

Topic: Editing Translated Content and Why It’s Good for You

Description: Faced with translated copy that barely resembles English? Don’t panic. The road to fluency can be hazardous, but it is a trip worth making. In this chat, Helaine Schweitzer gives us an up-close look at editing foreign content and why doing so helps us learn what we don’t know about global events at a moment when we can use all the information we can get.

Before the Chat

About 5-10 minutes before the scheduled starting time, set up an #ACESchat search in your Twitter feed (whether using the web, Tweetdeck, HootSuite or some other app). Just type #ACESchat into the search field; and remember, it’s not case sensitive.

It’s best to let your other followers know that you’ll be participating in a chat for the next hour and that you might be bombarding them with a lot of tweets on our topic. If they aren’t interested in editing, they can tune you out for the next hour.

You can submit questions in advance to the chat moderator by sending a direct message to @copyeditors.

During the Chat

Introduce yourself to the group and tell how you’re involved in the field of editing.

Feel free to ask the guests questions that are on topic (without going through the moderator) and to comment on anything. Lurking is fine, too.

If responding to a specific question, indicate which one it was by using the question label (Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.).

During the chat, DM @copyeditors or send questions you’d like the moderator to pose to @copyeditors without the #ACESchat hashtag.

The only other rules — be a considerate tweeter (debate is welcome, but play nice) and stay on the topic of editing.

This is a great opportunity to network with editors from all over and to gain new Twitter followers. So speak up.

Chat Archives

We archive each chat using Wakelet, with a tweet sent through @copyeditors and a link posted here. (Archives recently transitioned from Storify to Wakelet and we're updating links. If you find a link error, let us know. You can find the archive at https://wakelet.com/@aceschat1.)

#ACESchat: How Editors Can Use Instagram to Market Themselves, Nov. 6, 2019

#ACESchat: Editing Fiction, Oct. 16, 2019

#ACESchat: How to Navigate Student Newsrooms, Oct. 2, 2019

#ACESchat: Top Things Fiction Editors Should Know, Sept. 18, 2019

#ACESchat: ACES 2020 Salt Lake City Conference Session Proposal Q&A, Sept. 4, 2019

#ACESchat: Developmental Editing of Memoirs, July 17, 2019

#ACESchat: How to Market Your Editing Business, July 3, 2019

#ACESchat: Thinking of Usage Like a Linguist , June 19, 2019

#ACESchat: How to Start Your Freelance Business , June 6, 2019

#ACESchat: Editing Distressing Content, May 15, 2019

#ACESchat: Leadership and Management Q&A, May 1, 2019

#ACESchat: Internal Style Guides: Find Your Direction, April 17, 2019