This contract is asking for a definition of ‘Editor’, can you supply something? How about ‘irritable, tea drinking pedant’? I’ll put that in the boilerplate.

What editors do all day has been brilliantly summed up in this handy pie chart from Sarah Fletcher (www.sarahjhfletcher.com and @sjhfletcher).

I can’t better that, but it made me think of some of the other things that I have done as an editor aside from make tea and swear at Word.