Slow-Cooked

We’re just emerging from the frenetic Yom Tov season. Here at the magazine, that means a lot of our writers and editors were running marathons, turning over material as quickly as humanly possible.

For all that we try to plan ahead, the Yom Tov production schedule is always crushing, and the creative process gets very condensed, with material written, edited, and processed at double-speed. Interview-transcript-first draft-second draft-edit-proof may all happen within 48 hours.

Now that we’re settling into a different mode, I hope our writers will be able to do some “slow-cooking” again.

What does that mean in writing terms? It means you do the interview or live the experience, file it away — and don’t write it. At least not yet.