Downsides
The complaining I did earlier -- about how I'm working a lot, how I'm doing editor duties without the pay or the title -- has just been placed into glaringly sharp relief.
You either do the work of an editor, and get to give yourself the assignments you want, or you are given assignments by an editor, who doesn't give a shit about what you want.
Case in point: for the winter sports issue -- a season and genre of sportage I roundly avoid -- I have been asked to write 1200 words on ski patrols.
Quoth Snatch: "What do I know about diamonds?"
I've learned my lesson sirs, I'll take the extra non-writing workload.
posted by Luke @ 2:22 PM
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I trust without reservation that your lack of intimate knowledge regarding all things snow-sporty, will actually result in the kind of fascinating outsider's essay we should only hope to get if we're gonna bother reading about ski patrols anyway.
Spin, Rumpelstiltskin!
Why not work for Salon, or The New Republic already? Gosh.
I'm working on it ... you know anybody on the inside?
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