Being a copy editor means you’re with the project until the bitter end. As we put the finishing touches on “If I Leave Here Tomorrow,” though, there were no longer any meetings or blueberry pancakes. I was in North Carolina; Kelly was designing in Michigan; David was leading the project from Washington, D.C.; and...
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Lost Words
What did I say in that first meeting? As you’ll read in Brad King’s introduction to my Invictus piece, I managed to do everything in my power to start off my relationship with Brad as poorly as possible. The worst of which was my apparently utterance that technology somehow wasn’t important. But that still...
Pathways, by Rhett Umphress
My former graduate assistant Rhett Umphress is currently nestled somewhere in North Carolina, working as a copy editing intern after two years in the Ball State University’s graduate program. He came to us with zero journalism training; he majored in music and education before this. In the course of his two years with us,...
Hitting the wall
“Your piece. I am not sure you are grokking this and I’m not sure what to do.” That was the message that greeted me from Invictus organizer Brad King early on Tuesday evening. I stared at the screen, unsure of what to do or how to respond. I had been working on my story,...
Wrestling with my words
Draft after draft, change after change, scene after scene… At this point, I’m not entirely sure if a single word that was written for the original draft of my chapter in If I Leave Here Tomorrow will make it to the final copy. The time period covered — my college career — hasn’t changed,...
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