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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

The future of editing jobs in the age of AI, with Samantha Enslen

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

1072. Is AI coming for our jobs—or just the boring parts? This week, Samantha Enslen of Dragonfly Editorial talks about how she sees AI changing the work of writers and editors. We talked about real clients, real fears, and hope for the future. Plus, Samantha shares her favorite old-school fiction (spoiler: Agatha Christie strikes again!).

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0:00.0

Grammar Girl here. I'm in Jan Fogarty, and for the next few weeks, while we're taking a season break,

0:10.7

we're going to release some of our best of the best bonus episodes that people who support the

0:16.2

show through Grammar Pallusa got during this last interview season. This week, you're going to get

0:22.6

behind-the-scenes conversations with Samantha Enslin, who owns a writing, editing, and design agency,

0:29.5

Dragonfly editorial. And we're going to talk about how she thinks AI is going to affect jobs for

0:35.6

writers and editors and how it will affect her agency.

0:39.3

We do these kind of extras every time I do an interview, so almost every week.

0:43.5

Thank you to the current Grammar Pallusa subscribers for supporting this show.

0:47.1

We appreciate it so much, and it makes these bonuses possible.

0:51.7

If you want to help and support the show, you can sign up on the show page

0:56.2

at Apple Podcasts right there on the listing, or separately to get everything by text message.

1:02.4

You can go to quick and dirty tips.com slash bonus to learn more. And links to both of those

1:07.7

are in the show notes.

1:15.2

Sam, thanks so much for being here.

1:17.1

Thank you. I'm happy to be here.

1:17.7

Yeah.

1:22.4

So in the main segment, we talked about how you are and aren't using AI and sort of what we think are its pros and cons.

1:25.0

You know, but as someone who owns an agency that employs writers

1:29.4

editors and designers i'm so curious to hear more about what you think its effect is going to be

1:35.7

on the job market for for those kind of people like have you been losing clients are you worried

1:41.3

about losing clients like i have seen people talking about losing

1:46.1

clients. I've seen writers and editors talk about not being able to get work. And so I'm really

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