Vanessa Plaister

🧠 editor and EDI professional | 🌈 she/her
☕ compulsive coffee drinker | 🐈 cat guardian | 🫣 never on Twitter

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

Better late than never: the long-promised link to a powerful insight into #TraumaInformedEditing courtesy of @IvaCheung and @TheFOLD Academy...

📢 If you make any time for CPD this week, make this your first stop.📢

https://t.co/SGV7SN7PkP

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

👏to @IvaCheung for today's incredibly insightful session on #TraumaInformedEditing with @TheFOLD_ Academy... I'll be sharing a link as soon as the recording's available, because this is content all professional editors should be taking to ❤

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@BethHamer1 We are *so* looking at a vision of my future with Bugsy, Julian and Mike right now... #WildlifeGoals ❤

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@ayesha_chari @hopebragg_ @BookMachine @peagreenboat42 @NickTEdits What @NickTEdits said 😊

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@KiaThomasEdits @YoursTruleighH @JanetWordsmith @KristenTateSF @RachelFudge @ebrenner @editorscanada @The_CIEP 4/4 that’s wholly their call.
But I don’t see why they would expect the organisation to require anything less for them than it does of others. And I don’t think it’s fair to devalue the work that others have done to that end.

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@KiaThomasEdits @YoursTruleighH @JanetWordsmith @KristenTateSF @RachelFudge @ebrenner @editorscanada @The_CIEP 3/4 body from which they’re seeking recognition *as currency in a competitive marketplace* is Canada-, UK- or US-based is irrelevant.
So, yes, if an editor is already getting more than enough work and doesn’t feel that it’s worth their time to build the necessary evidence, …

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@BethHamer1 I knew I should have played that photo of my first wedding closer to my chest...😆

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

Anyone care to calculate the value of the milliseconds I've just saved on London–Ottawa time-difference calculations, so that I can offset it against the cost of the new clock?! 😏

#SeeingTime #SavingTime #TwoClocksAreBetterThanABirdInTheHand

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

For clarity: I am not there.

I marched against the Criminal Justice Bill in 1994; nearly 30 years on, I'm sat safely at home crying hot, angry tears and tweeting, wishing I'd had the courage to be there and instead amplifying the work of those who are.

#KillTheBill

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

Hear the chant. Watch as hands raised to prove peaceful intent have to push back as riot shields get ever closer. Then watch the riot shields.

Riot shields weaponised by those who are supposed to protect us.

Even when we protest.

Because protest is a human right. #KillTheBill

[Alon Aviram @AlAviram]

Right now

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

So, this happened... ✈️🇨🇦🏞️

Be kind to him, Ontario. He's sort of important to me.

#Robxit #CorbyGoesToCanada #Adventures

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@Moose_Rocks Husband is first off on our Canadian adventure today and we turned on @PrimordialRadio as we set off for Heathrow... To be played out of town by The Doors, 'This Is the End'? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!😩

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

Thoughtful Daughter made me cry at a stranger. 👀

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@JayHulmePoet Now that I'm older and wiser, I realise how much work goes into producing @BeanoOfficial... TBH, @JayHulmePoet, it's still a bargain at £3? 😊

[CIEP Official @The_CIEP]

1/5 As another association of editors, @The_CIEP is committed to dismantling the structural barriers to broader representation, to amplifying those sharing their experiences and pointing us towards better practices, and to engendering inclusive language. We can all #DoBetter.

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@PrimordialRadio Four units; total aperture count, 50. Top tip: always keep an aperture free for nothing more than a cushion.

The cats fucking love 'em. 🐈

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@Moose_Rocks @PrimordialRadio THANK YOU! Husband has the happiest face right now... 😁 Won't let me take a snap to show you, mind. 🙈

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@Moose_Rocks @PrimordialRadio #peoplesplaylust Off to London to get biometrics done for a move to your home country and we'd like 10/10 off 10/10 Skindred, 'Nobody', off _Babylon_, please! Blow the husband (Rob, who's driving) a kiss while you're at it, would you? 😘 😏

[Vanessa Plaister @artisaneditor]

@Moose_Rocks @PrimordialRadio Y'know when you belatedly realise that 'Nobody gets out alive' is a horribly tone deaf choice during a pandemic? That. 🤦🤦🤦 But—it's just such a bloody BANGER. 💯