15 Things You Know To Be True If You're An EIC On Odyssey
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15 Things You Know To Be True If You're An EIC On Odyssey

We love our communities, but everyone has their pet peeves.

Kaylee Smith
Dec 02, 2019
Ohio University
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15 Things You Know To Be True If You're An EIC On Odyssey
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Let me start this off by saying being an editor-in-chief is amazing, especially in my community. Being an EIC has a lot of perks, such as being able to view everyone's content before it goes live. With everything thing great, comes some less great aspects too, though. Here's 15 things you can probably relate to if you're an EIC on Odyssey.

1.Creators not getting their articles in on time. It's one thing if it's a one time occurrence, but when it is a repetitive thing it makes you never want to miss a deadline in your personal life ever again.

2. Knowing a title needs to be more creative but not being able to think of a creative one yourself. At least I have the ability to recognize something needs more spunk, even if it takes twenty minutes for me to manifest that spunk.

3. Having a certain editing process. Many things need to be checked while editing an article, but everyone has their own order of which things they check first.

4. Wishing someone would edit your articles. The con of being your own editor is questioning if your articles make coherent sense since you're the one writing and editing them, some weird wording may not be caught.

5. Having to constantly replace cover photos. For the love of everything nice, when will creators stop trying to have words in their cover photo?

6. Searching the entire web to find a website to link to a fact someone had in their article. If someone uses a statistic without hyperlinking where they got it from, and you're nice enough to do it for them, it can be considered an entire journey.

7. Reminding creators to share their articles. Nothing is worse than spending time editing articles for someone's article who gets five views because it wasn't shared.

8. Being asked what EIC stands for. Know your acronyms, people.

9. Thinking of creative content ideas. If I have to read one more "An Open Letter To..." I may lose my marbles.

10. Thinking of a plethora of tags. #Relatable #EICProbs #Odyssey

All in all, being an EIC on Odyssey is rewarding work, and here's some things you probably know to be true, too, if you're an EIC.

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