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I did a couple of weeks at The Guardian, Look magazine, Zest magazine for a month in January
when we had our Christmas period off, the Western Gazette in Yeovil, oh, The Week, Women’s
Weekly and the Chard and Ilminster News. All of the celebrities have been getting engaged
or getting married, especially with the Royal wedding, so it feels like, not just in wedding
magazines but in other magazines like Grazia and Red and your, kind of, your main consumer
mags everybody’s, kind of, covering them. Because they’re quite a small team we do
a bit of writing as well, so I’ll write features, research for features so its, kind
of, nice you get a nice mixture of writing and research and make a nice mixture of things
really. Yeah I did feel really nervously actually
and I think I’d worked really hard over the summer to be able to do the MA because
I couldn’t really, I didn’t really have any, kind of, financial background to be able
to help me to do it so I just saved, like, had four different jobs I think over the summer
to be able to do it. The good thing with Mouth is that probably
before you haven’t, kind of, worked in that environment before where you have a specific
role, like you’re Features Editor or you’re Editor or you’re, and it’s really nice
because you, kind of, work, you’re all friends but you, kind of, work as a team as well.
With my undergrad I never had that with my university magazine or newspaper you, kind
of, you could get involved but there wasn’t the, kind of, structural approach that you
have with Mouth where you go through the subbing process and you go through the art process
and you see, you learn about InDesign and I think that, kind of, whole practical element
of, kind of, fulfilling an actual role is, kind of, one of the main things I think, kind
of, stood out for me. I’d definitely like to get a Features Writer
role or a Features Editor role. I used to say that I’d like to be an Editor by the
time I’m 30 but now I’ve seen how hard they work I’m not sure. Still a possibility
but for now I think definitely to get into features would be fantastic.