Edit Test

Hello! Thanks for doing this. If you have questions, or something doesn’t make sense, drop us a line. Ideally what you’ll email back to us will be one document, divided into the following six sections. Let’s begin!

SECTION ONE: DEALING
Here are three things from our inbox (authors’ names and the like are redacted). Directions: Please respond to each in the manner you feel is best!

Next: stories!

SECTION TWO: FUCK/MARRY/KILL
Here are three stories! Directions: Give one story a fast and dirty run-through to publish right away online. Reject one story. Give one story (presumably your favorite!) the best possible in-line edit for review by the author prior to publication. Include headlines on the two you don’t kill. And tell us briefly why you chose each for its fate. Pro tip: If you format these in Word, you probably should have your smartquotes and ordinals turned off, otherwise you are setting yourself up for HTML disasters.

Piece One [doc file download]

Piece Two [doc file download]

Piece Three [doc file download]

Please note: These are pieces under consideration by actual contributing writers; please accord them privacy and do not distribute, quote or discuss, thank you!

Next: plans, thinking and story time!

SECTION THREE: GOING FORWARD
Between January 1 and March 1, what are some things that should be on The Awl’s publication calendar? And how do you think they should they be executed?

SECTION FOUR: FREE TIME
If you had 30 peaceful minutes of uninterrupted solitude, what do you really, actually most feel like learning more regarding to write about today?

SECTION FIVE: SCHEMING
With sponsored editorial content, a lot of times brands and companies will come to us and say: “we want to reach x audience,” or “we want to reach people who care about y.” And then we craft something that — most importantly — we actually want to publish, independent of the sponsorship, and take that back to them.

Can you come up with:

• two one-off ideas for a brand that wants to reach young men between 24 and 36;

• a five-part series (by the same author or many, directly related or an array) for a company that wants to reach people who care about “fitness and healthy lifestyles.”

SECTION SIX: STORY TIME
Tell us a little story about the people who raised you, please.

Thanks! That is actually the end.