Sometimes they’re for the best.
For my magazine’s next issue, I’d set aside three pages to publicize a big summer event. But in the weeks since the issue’s materials deadline, I’d received no word from the event’s chairman.
Last week at a national event for the group, I met the chairman. He said that rather than three pages, he’d need only one.
I had two pages to fill.
The next day, another official for the summer event came to me with a problem. While he’d missed the deadline, he had a two-page article that really needed to run in the next issue. Was there any way I could include it?
Yes, problem solved!
Through years in publishing, I’ve learned to make plans — but to hold them lightly. Had the urgent, late article not arrived, I would have had another article to fill that space. But the unexpected one fit the issue so much better.
