Things you should know when you want to be an editor!

English version

I´ve just finished my Diploma thesis and now, when all the time of the world is mine (not really), I can tell you about it! I study Editorial work and publishing. It basically means that I stare at text, which other people write and I make it readable and grammatically correct. After five years of studying it and few years of practicing it, these are the things I wish I knew before.

Probably many students in general can relate to this as well!

1. Editors never sleep. Ever. Sleep is overrated.

2 Taking a nap with open eyes in public transportation is now a good compensation for not sleeping at night/at all.

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3. Placebo effect is your friend now. You don´t sleep, so you think that energy drinks, coffee and magnesium tablets are your fuel. On the other hand, you know it´s not true. You just see them as "magic pills" that make you go for hours.

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4. You think that greasy hair, no make-up and big under eyes circles are new look everybody should adapt.

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5. Your computer is part of your body. When something bad happens to him (yes, not IT, but HIM), you cry for a little while. When you fix that problem, you start to treat him as a person!

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6. You start to speak in code. You have your own language in which words such as widow or river mean something completely different. You know what it is and you know how to fix it.

7. You are Microsoft Office Word master!

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8. You just know that saving your document is the most important part of the process.

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9. Your eyes see everything. Two space-bars in-between words instead of one? See without even checking it! Then everybody else sees your eyes and They are like: What the hell happened to your face!

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10. You are so happy (not even secretly) when you find a beautiful font that you have to tell everybody.

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11. You make friends in library. No comment.

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12. Your favorite place on the internet is online dictionary webpage.

13. When you cannot find your glasses anywhere, the world stops till you find them again!

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14. Back pain, neck pain, eye pressure, headache! Get used to it.

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On the brighter side, everybody reaches out to you when they need "linguistic" help. They see you as an open dictionary. They trust you! You´re a pro!

And I have to say, in spite of all these things, I love this work. 

Stay focused!

Love, Em

How you really feel while writing your final thesis!

English version

Wow, It has been a while! I´m in that stage of life, when I need to write my final thesis and try to graduate from University. You´ve been there, you are there, you´re gonna be there one day, or if you´re lucky enough, you might never do that (just kidding, go and study!). 

Since me and almost everybody around me are trying to do this thing called graduation, I find everything else besides writing and studying oddly much more interesting.
Here I am to cheer you up a bit. I´m sure you can relate too, whether it´s final thesis you need to write or just another paper work for history class.

Enjoy ;)

It all starts with an empty word document and you writing down your name. When you accomplished that, you are satisfied enough to save it and name the document. Well done. You´ve done a great job so far!

Now for the "easy part". You need to find your inner motivation. An idea that can move your paper work to whole another level. Once you got it, quickly, I sad really quickly, write it down!!! You might lose it as quickly as you got it!

Maybe you need to visit library. When you got the right book, you realize you need to read it. At first it doesn´t make any sense to you.

Then you just suck up all the knowledge (or just find it on the internet) and you´re ready to do this thing!

Now, you just write whatever comes to your mind. Hold on to that one thought and just try to describe it as many different ways as possible!

You stop sleeping, you don´t need to sleep!

There are gonna be moments, you´re gonna feel desperately.

However, your friends are gonna be there for you.

When your tutor asks you about the source of information you used in your paper, you have probably no idea:

Or you are trying to make it look like it was your idea:

Did you actually write it before deadline? Your tutor is like:

At the end, you´re almost sad It´s over.

Just kidding again. You probably look like this:

I would like to tell you it´s gonna be easy, but it´s just not! So man up and kick some asses!

And remember, after it is over, you are going to feel the biggest satisfaction of your life:

Good Luck ;)

Love, Em

PS: What is the worst part of writing what you don´t really want to write? :)