For now, it will have to do.
While I like most of the latest issue of the magazine I produce, one aspect troubles me. The cover photo I’d taken was adequate, but I keep replaying how I could have done better.
Then my decades of photographic experience kick in. The conditions had been difficult, my time limited, the opportunity unexpected. Given the circumstances, I’d … Continue reading
Catch them with your first words.
Don’t be like the writer whose article I recently rejected.
While his brief account reported the event’s facts, he failed to take into account his prospective readers. So he neglected to provide at the start of the article any material to prompt people to want to read it.
I edit the magazine for a specialty organization. While its … Continue reading
Do you give yourself time to make revisions?
I could have settled for the versions of the magazine articles I’d completed a few weeks ago. I’d already gone over the layouts several times.
Since they were for the next issue, I had set them aside while I completed this one.
But today as I revisited those pages, I kept seeing aspects I could … Continue reading