Editorial
From Orrmulum_2006
This year’s edition of Orrmulum proved a challenge that was full of surprises. In actuality, its production was not a process we could have predicted, but it has given us a sense of satisfaction and pride in what we believe is a job well done!
We are a group of Advanced Editing and Publishing students who gamely volunteered to publish an online magazine, with little or no IT experience between us. But we have laughed our way through our mistakes and done our best to bring you something we ourselves would love to read and wished we had before we begun! We have tailored the content to what we think you’d like to know, and as students hope we have some idea of what you need to know.
We know that uni life is a combination of hard work, dull readings and exciting opportunities. It may seem at times that the path you’re taking will not lead to where you would like to go and you question your choices or explore other options. If that’s the case, check out our feature article on getting published. Or if you’d rather analyse than create, have a read of 'Plain English' to see where our language is headed. But rest assured, the world is your oyster and hard work does pay off. We have also included a couple of interviews with our Head of School, Professor Kerry Green, and PhD student Cameron Fuller.
This year’s edition of Orrmulum is packed with features relating to the needs and desires of writers. In saying writers we assure you that this is not a title you need to aspire to—if you have surfed these pages you already are one. You may also be an editor, a publisher or a poet. But whatever your communication taste or style, you will find in Orrmulum both the encouragement and the resources to evolve. Writers' central has all the hints you need on how to get started or how to progress if you’ve already begun, while our creative writing section is sure to inspire.
The Orrmulum team would like to wish our readers all the best in their endeavours. The sky is the limit; we’d like to think we’ve offered you the motivation to get there.
If you’d like to know more about us, or about Orrmulum, check out our extras section.
—The Orrmulum team
| No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft—H G Wells |
Back to main page
