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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing

@jenjeditor.bsky.social

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Owner and Editor, Up Style Editing. Writer. Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. Dev, Line, Copyedits. Beta Reading, MS Eval's. 📚 EFA Member, Editors Canada Exec, WCC Workshops. ✍️ www.upstyleediting.ca

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Jul 28

#editorrecommendations #clienttestimonials #editorsky #writingcommunity #booksky #vmsawh #genremashup

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 14d

I have a short fiction piece, prose, and a poem pending publication. I'm also working on a book length manuscript (albeit, slowly 🐌).

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 15d

Last week, I was featured in the Writers Collective of Canada Facilitator Spotlight. 🔦

#creativewritingevents #writingworkshops #authoreventstoronto #authorsupport #bookishevents #writinggroupmississauga #writinggroupsgta #editor

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Volunteer Facilitator Spotlight: “I was looking for a writing community, and I found community writing.” - Writers Collective of Canada

Meet Jen Jilany. In the spring of this year, Jen encountered her first-ever WCC workshop at the Hazel McCallion Central Library. By September, she was a trained WCC facilitator, co-facilitating...

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 17d

Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?

Reply below with info + link to the post.

Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.

Promo graphic for Kid Lit and YA Book launches, Oct.20-26, 2025. Text below invites authors to reply with book info and a Bluesky post link. Includes hashtags #KidLit #PublicationDay #BookBirthday and credits @debbieohi and small text reading 2025-Wk43.

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 18d

Highlight of my fall.

#muskoka #ontariocanada #travelcanada #fallcolours #lakesandtrees #roadtrip

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 23d

Haha, fair question! Maybe they've gone stale.

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 23d

Haha, yes, I agree with the modernization of the meaning, yet it still has to roll off the tongue somehow...

Someone proposed "feed two birds with one scone." 😂

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 24d

"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."

#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 24d

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on this day in 1890

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · 25d

Just realized that "Killing two birds with one stone" is actually an awful expression.

Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦

#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 28d

*Submission reminder*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

Pop up submission window — wild hunt books

Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Oct 5

Today's home office. 🏡 🍂

#outdoorsindoors #homeoffice #wip #amwriting #octobersummer

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Oct 4

There is a BC version as well, through Editors BC and either Surrey Public Library or Vancouver Library. I found a link for you: share.google/asjInCa4UR3W...

Blue Pencil: Writing Consultation with a Professional Editor

Local writers have a chance to receive professional advice on their writing project. Writers will be able to submit a writing project of up to 2500 words and be paired with a professional editor from ...

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · Oct 4

I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...

Spirit of Halloween costume, fiction writer, includes laptop notebooks lukewarm coffee bags under eyes and a natural desire to cause characters pain in English

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Oct 4

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Oct 4

Awesome; glad you are acting fast. The first two sessions are already 80% full! 😯

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Oct 4

📢ATTENTION Hamilton-area writers 🖋️

We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!

Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.

#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor

Poster for the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program, which provides free editorial guidance.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · Oct 2

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Oct 2

Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Oct 1

Writer's Digest has shared their stance on AI:

"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."

www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...

#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky

Writer's Digest AI Policy

As new technologies emerge, the Writer's Digest team feels it is essential to make our stance on generative AI clear.

www.writersdigest.com

Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Sep 30

Dear writers:

Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Sep 30

Have come to the realization that my 2025 writing projects are dominated by the animal kingdom. 👑

- Prose, pending pub., about a swan 🦢
- Poetry, pending pub., about a muskrat 🦫
- Short story, pending pub., about a raven, opossum, and wolf 🐺

🔜 Next project: From the POV of a cat. 🐈‍⬛

#wildlife #pub

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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing @jenjeditor.bsky.social · Sep 29

"The only purpose of revision is to get more deeply to the truth."
—Margaret Robison, poet

#poetry #writingcommunity #booksky #amediting #amwriting #art #editing #editor

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JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · Sep 26

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · Sep 26

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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