Hi!
My name is Emily and I'm the editor-in-chief for our Odyssey team here at DU. I'm a senior marketing major with a minor in management. Outside of school, I'm a competitive figure skater, work in the varsity athletics department, and work on our events board DUPB. I am not a writer by trade but I believe in what Odyssey stands for and in the necessity of finding your voice, especially in college when we can get lost so easily.
Articles shouldn't take too long to write: 45 minutes to an hour. My advice is that if an article is taking you over two hours to write including doing various research, wait to finish it and write something else. You can write as many articles per week as you want and schedule them for specific times or just submit them as you want. Write about anything you think the student culture at DU and in general will respond to. Feel free to check out Thought Catalog, Elite Daily, Facebook, Buzzfeed, and old Odyssey articles for inspiration.
I’ve also included a couple of links at the bottom below my signature for you to take a look at. They’re articles the team has written in the past that have received good feedback from readers, leadership, and have a lot of shares. Typically content creators will respond to current events like Black Lives Matter, the election, LGBT rights, feminism, etc. But if you think of something outside the box that a specific group might relate to and you feel strongly about, please feel free to create something for that!
Articles will be due every Friday at midnight. We need 12 articles per week at minimum, and preferably get consistent 100% participation in writing/ submitting. If you go two weeks without submitting an article, you'll get a strike against you and I'll email you asking to set up a meeting to talk about it.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me! I'm attached to my phone so I'll respond quickly unless I'm sleeping or at practice.
Em
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/frog-and-toad-and-the-importance-queer-media
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/letter-the-girl-love-with-basketball
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/wont-spend-20s-exploring
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-skating-means-to-me
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/youre-not-feminist-and-heres-why-that-isnt-really-okay
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/cultural-stigma-therapy-isolating-community