Discussion Reflections

Today’s trip was very insightful in many ways. We got to see the real prints of different creatives such as poets and artist. One of the pieces that intrigued me was the zine. I love looking at magazines and to see one so old and rare was very interesting. I liked hearing about the boy…

This time there were definitely things that were similar and things that were different. We actively could not touch the artifacts due to the delicacy of the paper and ink and other stuff.  A lot of magazine covers and articles appear to be hand-written/drawn. You can see that sometimes the author makes errors or the…

First, I’m changing the name from The Bit to Break Bits. Makes more sense with the pun. My next plan is to change my structure. I know that I got feedback today about my audience, reach, and issues with school journalism censorship, but I still want my publication to be run out of the school…

On the class’ trip to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, I had a wonderful time. I got to explore information about the marketing and business materials of Lost Roads Publishers. Through exploring the documents, I learned of the small press’ journey in publishing. Overall, the experience felt incredibly magical. This is my first…

I’m not going to lie, going into this I thought I was going to be falling asleep from boredom the entire time while someone yapped about artifacts, however I was quickly proven wrong. The first thing I enjoyed was that we actually got to feel the artifacts for ourselves, instead of having someone just talk…

A lot of what we were talking about in class revolved around the industry of publishing. How a lot of groups within our department need to take what is wanted by the general audience and balance it with what they want to say. My question referring to my 2nd post was in reference to the…

Today’s class will definitely help me ensure that my posts are of the highest quality. A big thing I learned from feedback from my peers is to show my own authenticity within my posts. Meaning to make sure that I am sharing the entirety of my observations and research as well as making inferences based…

I usually really like tedious and repetitive work, but I don’t think I would like typesetting so much. It has a level of mundanity that I wouldn’t find rewarding or enjoyable. Searching for a very specific font is frustrating because so many fonts look very similar but at the same time very different. Structuring a…

Virginia Woolf didn’t have the various options me and many writers do now in the modern era when it comes to how publishing was done. The way that she used to get her novels published would drive me insane. I am very much a perfectionist and I would drive myself crazy trying to get it…

Today I was thinking a lot about how things change over time. One publishing house gets absorbed by another. Marketing strategies change over time. Past information is lost. Thinking about how a marketing strategy may change over time is making me want to pick an older publication for my second assignment as my first one…

Beginning First and foremost, this class was an insane introduction to the world of editing and publishing. It showed me that there is so much more to it than I originally thought. It is not simply a matter of checking someone’s work and giving it a stamp of approval or a stamp of rejection, but…

I found the advertising to be very dated and reflective of the time period. In the early edition I viewed (July 1903), there was promotion for a “free” pocketwatch which had styles for both ladies and gentlemen. The ladies’ watch was slightly smaller and had engravings of a landscape while the mens’ watch was larger…

One of the many things I’ve thought about looking into for the post is the reception of prior translations of The Second Sex and their reception. From what I understand, which is very little, it seems like prior translations communicated Beauvoir’s ideas effectively enough for her to become such an iconic figure in feminist philosophy…

My name is Christian Antonio Goicoechea (gway-co-che-ya) and I’m a freshman dorming in Gerber Hall. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be using Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein for the publication of the first assignment. I’ve recently written a story based on the original novel and I’m excited to be rereading the book and exploring the publication.…