jonah
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Post by jonah on Jun 1, 2011 11:33:10 GMT -5
Hey y'all
I haven't been to these boards in forever and I haven't written a post in God knows how long. I blame Columbia basically. But now that I'm graduated I think I'll have more time to devote to this. Keep in mind though, that I am now working 4 to midnight Wednesdays. So editors, if my drafts aren't up by 4 on Wednesday you should be worried.
II. I'm a little confused about how the new process works. It would be great if someone could fill me in, from idea to post, on what exactly is expected of us at present.
Jonah
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Post by chalkey on Jun 2, 2011 10:41:08 GMT -5
Okay! So here's how the new process works.
1. Ideally, on Thursdays, I send out reminder Facebook PMs to everyone that they're writing for the next week. I also might do every two weeks if people are feeling ambitious.
2. Articles should be finished in a first draft form by Tuesday evening. From there, the writer takes a breather. Post the article as a draft on the forums as an individual thread under "Story Help," with the subject line "DRAFT [date to be published]: [title of article]." When you are done, DO NOT FORGET TO POST A BLANK DRAFT DOCUMENT. This will keep your authorship on the article.*
3. Three people should proofread every article in the ideal world: Emily, our Chief Copy Editor, the Section Editor for that section, and yours truly. We try to do that as soon as possible. Emily and I will modify your draft directly, noting all that we change in reply posts. With this new system, others are free to workshop articles as well if they wish. As an EA, you're obligated to do this at some point in your life just so I can say as Editor that you did this for me. But most weeks, don't worry about it.
4. When Emily makes her changes, you may start revising. The draft done by around 10:00 p.m. or so on Wednesday night is the draft that will be posted.
*Don't use Draft.blogger ever again. Ever. The format has changed such that things are far less user friendly, and now everything that could've been done in draft.blogger can now be done in regular blogger. But more importantly, draft.blogger overwrites the authorship each time, so if Emily or I touch an article it will change irreversibly to our authorship (and because we have admin status and everyone else has author status, you can't change it back).
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Post by chalkey on Jun 2, 2011 10:42:48 GMT -5
Also, we're working on an eBook. The discussion thread is on the suggestions/dibs board.
Also also, welcome back!
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