O/B: Week Six

Stressful week. Copy edits, re-writes, more deadlines.

The week was a slow one for all those not in the editorial department. We're getting closer and closer to our production dates, so articles are reaching the final stages of their drafting. Once an article has been written, it becomes a draft which is then fact-checked (by an intern), and goes through it's first round of copy-editing. A second round is done by an out-of-house editor who checks for content consistency, and then the drafts are sent to the managing editor to be copy-edited again, laid-out in the appropriate category, and for any changes to be made. These drafts are then approved by Mike, who does the final round of editing and sends the finished article to the writer for consent. This process ends this coming week, so the art editors can have the week to work on creative layout and photography. Then, next week, we will begin proofreads of the mock-up, and the issue will be go through the final stages of editing before print.

This week I did some editing, then some writing. I've been assigned two more blog posts, and had to work on the Outlook, a more creative photo-accompanied piece for the beginning of the mag., as well as some rewrites for the articles I already turned in.

Things are still going well overall, and every day I seem to learn something more about the language that I didn't know (like "cleanup" is one word when used as a noun!). I feel stressed about the amount of work I know I have coming up (Mike assigns to-do lists so we are always responsible for deadlines, which is stressful), on top of school, but I am motivated by knowing this is my last semester and that this work will be paying off in the long run.

More to come.