I think one of the hardest things as a editor to deal with besides stories that are short or poorly written is having to deal with your page being cut. Not so much that I spent hours working on this page, which I was really proud of, it is that my writers won't get to see their work printed after doing so much work for me, that is what bothers me next to losing a page. Today we had to cut my features page on health because a photo essay on "Sweeney Todd" fell through. I guess now I know how previous directors who tried to get the "Watchmen" made into a movie feel, that we pour ourselves into our work to watch it be taken away from us. I am not bitter about it because it was what was collectively best for the group, someone had to take the hit , and timely stuff like news and sports are worth more than my features page, so as long as the paper comes out as fantastic as it has always been, then I can deal with that, next week I am right back to work on my features page in fact I believe my health one is running next week so it wasn't a total lost but it would have been nice for my writers to see their work run this week like it was suppose to.
Overall I felt really good about how this page was coming out maybe because designing it all of sudden kind of clicked to me and I was able to create solutions to problems a lot faster. Sylvia, my favorite page helper, helped me again make my page the way I wanted it. At some point I am going to have to be able to do this without her but I am very sure I am still going to be enlisting her help with page design ideas. That or we will twitter about how the good the flag bids for the 2012 Olympics look.
On another note I realized today that i need to be more organized on how I do things, I need to edit my stories before laying it out and I need to be more stern with my writers. I think I should follow Nick's approach, "harsh but fair."
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