Correspondance
Nov. 18th, 2003 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverfae9-----Original Message-----
From: samantha [mailto:samantha@kotapress.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:48 PM
To: BillFink@seattlepi.com
Subject: Question
Mr. Fink,
A friend in the art deparment said that you were the man to get in contact with regarding the special world of copy editing and what I need to do to enter. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Samantha Mastridge
----- Original Message -----
From: Fink, Bill
To: 'samantha'
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:47 PM
Subject: RE: Question
Hia Samantha: What kind of editing job are you looking into -- newspaper? And where are you in your career now -- it's all about experience, but there are ways to get into it? Who do you know if our art department? I guess the first rule of copy editing is to question everything! -- Bill
Hello Bill,
My, my, all these questions...I assume the blood sampling comes later?
Ok, so here are all of my answers. They're in order here, but feel free to mix them up if it'll make everything more interesting for you.
I'm looking into any sort of editing job. This sounds like a cop-out, I know, but it's the truth. In the cheesiest possible sense, I'm getting into this business because I love words, and I want to work with them.
My career is so far sub-fetal. Here's the deal: I finished my degree at a small private school in Florida in April and picked up immediately following graduation to move all the way out here. Now, I'm working in retail to pay the bills and wondering exactly what I was doing, moving someplace where I knew absolutely no one and had even fewer contacts. That being said, I have spent the last year as a co-editor for a small Vashon-based press. It was my internship in college and I continued it afterwards so that I could feel like I was doing something.
Then last week I met a very nice man named Curt (Milton, I want to say, is his last name) and he told me that I should send an email to you, since you were a nice guy and would at least shoot me down easily.
I think that's the end of my story. My blood type is A+ and I'm a Virgo.
samantha
From: samantha [mailto:samantha@kotapress.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:48 PM
To: BillFink@seattlepi.com
Subject: Question
Mr. Fink,
A friend in the art deparment said that you were the man to get in contact with regarding the special world of copy editing and what I need to do to enter. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Samantha Mastridge
----- Original Message -----
From: Fink, Bill
To: 'samantha'
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:47 PM
Subject: RE: Question
Hia Samantha: What kind of editing job are you looking into -- newspaper? And where are you in your career now -- it's all about experience, but there are ways to get into it? Who do you know if our art department? I guess the first rule of copy editing is to question everything! -- Bill
Hello Bill,
My, my, all these questions...I assume the blood sampling comes later?
Ok, so here are all of my answers. They're in order here, but feel free to mix them up if it'll make everything more interesting for you.
I'm looking into any sort of editing job. This sounds like a cop-out, I know, but it's the truth. In the cheesiest possible sense, I'm getting into this business because I love words, and I want to work with them.
My career is so far sub-fetal. Here's the deal: I finished my degree at a small private school in Florida in April and picked up immediately following graduation to move all the way out here. Now, I'm working in retail to pay the bills and wondering exactly what I was doing, moving someplace where I knew absolutely no one and had even fewer contacts. That being said, I have spent the last year as a co-editor for a small Vashon-based press. It was my internship in college and I continued it afterwards so that I could feel like I was doing something.
Then last week I met a very nice man named Curt (Milton, I want to say, is his last name) and he told me that I should send an email to you, since you were a nice guy and would at least shoot me down easily.
I think that's the end of my story. My blood type is A+ and I'm a Virgo.
samantha
