Reflections on my Project

This whole project was a bit of a challenge. To do a literary journal by oneself is a large feat to tackle. For the KCR we have a staff of fifteen students and our faculty advisor. Even tackling the literary journal we do for the school is a challenge. The one saving grace I had going for myself is that all the pieces I had to read were written by myself. Another large challenge was teaching myself and practicing graphic design work to make everything look refined. Though the biggest challenge was having some of my files get corrupted when I tried to format everything together.

As part of my outline I included that I would have help in some of my revising and editing. Also I had two friends look over my final layout and write what they thought of my finished project. One of the people that helped with my editing wanted some more practice doing it. They want to become an editor after they graduate so I thought they would be perfect to help me. Plus it would be beneficial for them to get extra practice with editing. One of the friends I had look at my finished project had expressed interest in literary journals. Having gone through the process I thought it beneficial to show them.

This project benefitted me because it made me work more on revising and editing. Something that I struggle with and hate doing. I’ve seen improvement in aspects of my written stuff currently when I go back and revise and edit. Also it gave more insight and what things are important with writing and submitting writing. I found stories that I had initially loved when I had written them now lacking something that made them stand out against my other writing.