I am sitting in a editor's chair again

One of my former co-workers asked me for help with some project two weeks ago and I nodded to it. Perhaps I should not have taken on more responsibilities as I am unable to catch up on anything.

He promised the job would take some four hours a day and and wouldn't last longer then four weeks. I reckoned the number of articles that need to be translated from English to Czech and other duties awaiting for me and finally said yes. Of course, the job has turned out to take more then four hours and it looks like they are going to ask me to stay longer. I have made up my mind to say NO this time.

Nevertheless, the job has been pretty interesting so far. I work in some totally web news edition that started two years ago and unlike many other web papers it came into being without the real paper basis. It has grown into one of the bigest on-line newspaper in my country and is pretty good. They started to cooperate with a big Czech publisher house issuing a newspaper some weeks ago which means to send them four completed pages full of news. It is a bit funny when pure news web is coming back to paper, isn't it? They found out soon that didn't know how to transform the news into a layout as most of them are young journalist without any praxis in real papers. So that the editor in chief remembered me.

So I am sitting in a editor's chair again, trying to explain to those young people over and over that writing for newspaper is something else then for the web, that every artical needs its precise size as well as the headline, that every "today" must be changed into "yesterday" and so on and on. Fortunately, they are good pupils.

The first week was realy tough, this second one has been a bit better and the next one is likely to be a smooth sailing experience. As far as I know myself, the last week is going to be a bit boring for my taste, more routine then discovering new things. So it will be time to say hello to them and return to the adventure of translation. And hopefully open this blog more often.