When your favorite periodical switches from fortnightly to monthly, one consequence is that the time elapsed between pen-to-paper and print-on-page expands.
Once, an imprudent and selfish correspondent like yours truly could turn in copy as late as a Tuesday evening and hold a magazine on a Friday morning, so long as I didn’t mind the hateful stares and voodoo curses of our line editors and production team. Now, I have much more time to turn things in last minute — not days but weeks to be late. That’s great when it comes to putting things off and shirking responsibility, but there’s a downside too: a higher chance that my timely takes will have been overtaken by events.
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