The Editor’s House: <span class="is-softi-hero">Editing session #1</span>
Theory is great, but practice is better.
Get into the mind of editors and understand what they look for when they’re editing work. The Editor’s house gets you access to edits from real work from real writers in the real world - really.
Make the red pen your friend with this copy editing course treasure chest.
About the course
Not your usual online <span class="is-softi">copy editing course</span>
Hi, nice to meet you. We’re dslx, a mission-driven creative writing agency packed with witty writers, epic editors, and creative creatures. In alignment with our mission to empower minority group writers and editors to create a more inclusive literary world, we got inspired by all of the writers and editors messaging dslx asking for advice, feedback, and work, and decided to create the Editor’s House—your red pen training ground.
Here, you’ll be able to understand what we look for when we’re editing work. Access batches of editing sessions and real edits from the dslx team through the Editor’s House. You'll walk away with the editing skills and tools you need to deliver closer-to-perfect first drafts—and warrant charging more for your work.
Who is it for
Who is this <span class="is-softi">course for?</span>
Content is a hot topic in this fearmongering, marketing-driven world. Considering the efficiency and widespread use of AI, it’s important to maximize humanness and master content editing in order to lead in the digital age.
How do you do that?
Access our archive of edits—curated for creating quality, error-free, human-centric content.
Whether you’re a…
- Professional editor interested in the form, style, and tone dslx looks for
- Freelance writer who wants to learn how to better self-edit your own writing—be it fiction or nonfiction
- University student who needs a fine-tuning device for academic writing
- Professional in corporate communications striving to refine clarity, consistency, and impact in messaging
- Director of your own freelance business who needs to streamline your editing process
- Creative solopreneur interested in sharing blog posts, copywriting, and SEO free of errors
The Editor’s House will equip you with the skills required to chart your career course.
What You'll learn
How the Editor’s House <span class="is-softi">help your writing and editing</span>
Kick factual errors to the curb and kiss grammar mistakes goodbye. Improve your editing skills and writing process with this personalized archive of copy editing examples, exercises, and explainers.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create style guides
- Edit more efficiently
- Achieve desired tone
- Avoid common errors
- Track changes you make
- Adapt to US or UK English
- Get pieces ready for publishing
You’ll learn how to:
- Be a helpful editor (to yourself and others)
- Craft sentences and articles with specific structures
- Write ideas into coherent, relevant, and complete form
- Edit documents for spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Take artificial intelligence’s suggestions and soar with your own words
Meet your instructor
Unlike static editing courses that provide lectures and cricket sounds, the Editor’s House is a compilation of living gems collected from the dslx team. We’re lucky to have a number of external clients and internal talents in written content from all over the world, and are happy to share what we’ve learned here in the Editor’s House. Go and get your copy edit on.
testimonials
What our students say
"I love the Mudras at your desk video! It’s a great reminder to take a moment to connect, breathe, and enter flow. A total creativity recharge."
“Starting the day with a yoga class is key to my writing process. It helps me get centered, focussed, and motivated! I love Ray’s take on the writer’s perspective and easy approach.”
“The ‘didn’t leave the house today’ is too perfect. As a writer, it's easy to get absorbed in the creative vortex and forget that you're not just a brain, but also a body. This course serves as a reminder for me to reconnect with my body—stretch, move, and engage my senses—to keep the creativity flowing without the back pain, stiffness, and "shrimp" posture."
faqs
Editor’s House <span class="is-softi">FAQs</span>
You don’t need to be a professional anything to take this course. We accept writers, students, and editors in all stages of their journey inside the Editor’s House.
You 100% can work at your own pace. Tend to clients, children, or culinary pursuits while learning the skills you need to write and edit quality documents, articles, or books entirely online and on your own timeline. Upon entering the academy, you get life access to the Editor’s House—no hurry nor worry.
As the Editor’s House is entirely online, you need internet access. We mostly work with Google Docs, but you can work within Microsoft Word and then transfer over if you’re a creature of habit (same goes for pen and paper, or typewriter, or crayon and napkin). Otherwise you just need a love of words, an open, learning mindset, and a desire to create engaging content.
Like Yoga for Writers, the Editor’s House is not a course for completion, but rather a resource for continuous professional development. Therefore, this asset of the dslx Academy does not provide a certificate of completion.
However, a number of other courses on campus do provide a digital certificate of completion, perfect for your portfolio and sharing on social media. You’ll also receive a custom badge next to your author profile, should you publish work with dslxcontent.com.