Digging into editing for Game Wrap

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With a chunk of the article submissions in for Game Wrap Magazine, that means we've got to get down to editing them. I've gone through three of them that I was assigned to edit through with a handful more to go. I wanted to have some finished before we had our editorial meeting this evening.

Mostly I've been pleased. Of the three articles I've edited so far, I thought each one was thoughtful, had useful perspective, and clearly attacked their topic. There's going to be some quality material in this magazine. I have concerns about other things, though. There's at least one article that I started reading but not edited yet that I can't make head or tail of. It's so vaguely and pretentiously written about some obscure form of theater theory that I just can't follow it. I am even passingly familiar with theater theory! What do we do with an article like that? How do we fix it, when we don't even know what questions to ask for clarification? I'm hoping to discuss that at tonight's meeting, what everyone thinks is the best way to handle it.

Also, I'm a little distressed at how many people haven't handed in their articles yet, or even dropped out entirely. We want this to be a substantial journal, and our number of pieces is going to be disappointly low unless some of these late writers get their stuff in. I'm hoping to see a few more in the slate from the people who asked for extensions, so that our volume doesn't end up excessively slim.

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