Having a Lovely Time
Today we’re putting the finishing touches to our UGC spec for the Telegraph. It always makes me laugh that we took the piss out of our predecessors for saying in a meeting, “Oh yes, its going to be a big document with all the buzz words in.” But here we are on a Sunday (!!!!) with James still editing into the main document and we’re running up to 100 pages very quickly. Big document anyone?
I’m trying not to be smug when I say ‘not bad for 7 days work’. I really hope the Telegraph are going to like what we’ve said, not only because I’ve had a spiky headache for the past week trying to pull all the spaghetti out of my head and into some sort of cohesive document structure on Basecamp, but because we have worked our asses off doing this, and lived, breathed the Telegraph day and night. I met up with my best friend yesterday, who sat on the other side of the table in the pub and gave me a bollocking about how smug I had been recently; “I mean, you’ve only been there for a couple of days Abbie, and your already using phrases like ‘changing the face of online publishing forever’, I mean get over yourself.” Shamefully I do totally believe that though - we’ve all had some seriously wicked ideas, and I also totally believe in the power of three - its much easier to come up with awesome ideas if you’ve got someone there to talk through them with, easier still if those people happen to be bad-ass industry specialists .
It’s been much more intense than anything we did at IR, and its also been difficult because of the rolling news we’re receiving through facebook and mail everyday, regarding the fallout of our old company, but as my Grandpapa said to me, its all a learning curve, and what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.
Oh, and today’s the beginning of my love affair with Mac (I went to the Apple shop today…)So maybe something beautiful did come out of the last few weeks….
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