Writing Outside the Lines
no_boundaries on Flickr – Photo Sharing! A few years ago, the lead editor of a small magazine asked me to do some graphic layouts that would break the magazine out of it’s design rut. She pulled a couple of envelopes from the slush pile — this was a few wheelbarrow-sized loads of manila envelopes, heaped in the middle of the office floor — and said, “Show us what you’ve got.” What I had was no experience in magazine layout. A week later, when the editor called me into a meeting about my submission, her first comment was, “This not what I expected. You didn’t just color outside the lines, you…