O/B: Week Tweleve

I have a thousand things to cover this week. It feels like a month has passed in a short five days.

This week was dedicated to copy-editing and clean-ups. Luckily, Cast is a smaller publication than O/B so the editing process isn't nearly as extensive. I edited my own work, then suffered through grammatically-inconsiderate work of the fly guides writing for this edition, and then finished up by reviewing the "final", reprinted articles that we will recycle into the 2015 edition. Next week will be the proofs.

Overall, I spent 9-5 on Monday editing and was in the office from 9-11:30 on Wednesday to finish the additional articles. Tuck sent me home with a few over the weekend that I finished on Easter Sunday. I spent Thursday evening working on the second round of hyperlink editing for Chris in the sales department, and finally got that in to him at 12:30am. Friday I worked on fixing the spring edition online article uploads-- I had forgotten to label about half of the pages with departmental headers (who would have thought that something so minute could mess up the entire organization of the site! Lesson? Attention to detail, always.) After I fixed those, Tuck did an audit of the winter article uploads which the intern before me (who quit) had uploaded. He was missing a lot of them, so it's my job to fix them. It's a busy week, and the next one coming even busier, but it's productive work. I just never want to fact-check again. Ever.

The meetings on Monday are what I want to talk about. I mentioned earlier we had three: the Spring post-mortem, the Cast alignment, and the summer idea meeting where we offer up our best potential drafts for the summer edition. I really liked the ideas I had, and left the meeting feeling confident about what I had suggested. I found out today Mike wants me to write a feature in the summer edition on the implications of Catch and Release fishing. Exciting! I'm a little bummed I won't get to write the things I wanted to, but it's a great opportunity to get my name headlined in the magazine. I need to discuss how long I'll be with O/B, since the internship requirements are coming quickly to a close. Three more weeks, give or take!