DeAnna Burghart

@DeAnnaBurghart

Freelance editor, part-time volunteer, full-time sci-fi/science geek. Member Editorial Freelancers Association and ACES. GO CHIEFS! she/her

Laguna Niguel, CA
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Joined February 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 26

    Hi, new followers! I'm just an editor who occasionally tweets about politics when she's irritated. (I'm irritated a lot lately.) Most of the time I tweet about when to use en dashes or hyphens and the like. If that's not your bag, I promise I won't be hurt if you unfollow. 💓

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  2. Apr 3

    I will know I am *fully* moved when my Poets+Writers and New Yorker arrive at my home sans forwarding labels.

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  3. Apr 1

    (yes, could probably be are, not is, but I'm on a tablet in the AZ desert fighting a horrid allergy attack, and in my mind the commas were brackets anyway. Stet.)

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  4. Apr 1

    This thread, and the act it foretells, is a true mitzvah.

    David, I'm the first person to retweet this message. It's one of just a few your had the opportunity to post before you became famous as a result of the worst moment in your life. I'm sorry to intrude, but to keep the bots off your back I've had to pull some data on your tweets.
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  5. Apr 1

    On. on the way. Stupid predictive text.

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  6. Apr 1

    The editor riding west through the New Mexico desert (not dessert), in the way back to her California office.

    A middle-aged woman smiles into the camera from the passenger seat of a BMW Z4. Her dark brown hair is streaked with gray and covered in a floral print scarf, her eyes are covered by dark sunglasses, and the Sonora desert is visible in the background.
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  7. Apr 1

    Potential clients, this is my view too. The goal is always perfection, but the goal is really "the best possible work in the most reasonable time" because it will never really be perfect. Unlike who basically is.

    The Copy Editor's Credo 1. Your job is to help make a writer's work be the best possible version of itself that it can be.
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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 31

    This is an important and real writerly/copyeditorial thing: If you don't like the way something looks—even if you absolutely know it's correct—rewrite it till you like it.

    Replying to @BCDreyer
    I pick option “reword the entire sentence so I don’t have to face this dilemma.”
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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 30

    Nelson owns some pencils, and Jeanette owns some pencils = Nelson's and Jeanette's pencils Nelson and Jeanette collectively own some pencils because they're married, or socialists, or both: Nelson and Jeanette's pencils

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  10. Mar 29

    We are the richest third-world country in the world. :(

    I live in Germany. If I need medicine or a doctor or an operation, my state insurance will cover every penny. Trumpers say that makes me a socialist & a snowflake. Ok. If it does, at least I’m a healthy snowflake & don’t have to wait til I’m dying to see a doctor due to finances.
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  11. Mar 29

    If we have the humility to listen, we can learn. As we learn, we can also teach. And together, we could actually change the way we look at the world.

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  12. Mar 29

    These young people see with a clarity that we have lost because we're so tangled up in and jaded by our experience and existence as adults.

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  13. Mar 29

    For those who don't know (probably almost everyone), POPS is a youth movement to eliminate plastic pollution in our environment.

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  14. Mar 29

    "People underestimate youth." You better believe it.

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  15. Mar 29

    One of the most amazing things I have seen in the last few months has been our youth stepping up to solve problems we've punted on. POPS participants are currently wowing me with this right now at

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  16. Mar 28

    Let's change the narrative to bioremediation--if we pull something out, we put it back as good or better. Reduce, reuse, recycle, regenerate.

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  17. Mar 28

    Regenerative education teaches the new generation to use technology and nature, instead of technology or nature, through positive, encouraging conversations.

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  18. Mar 28

    In the early 1900s, 90% of farms were family farms, and they used organic fertilizers. Today only 2% are family farms, and they mostly use chemical fertilizers.

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  19. Mar 28

    You can grow nutritious food with chemicals, but you can't grow soil that way. To grow soil, we need to reinstate natural systems.

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  20. Mar 28

    Small scale back yard farmers can grow their own food by mimicking the original natural systems.

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  21. Mar 28

    Eddy: 'Regenerative' is more than 'organic' practices. We have confused the land for money, but we can do things mimicking the natural systems that existed originally.

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