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Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Ep 32: The Editorial Process

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

Arts

4.9779 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

If you have ever wondered how the editorial process at Man Repeller works, this week you’re invited to learn first hand how a story is created from incipient idea to final product, a sometimes half-baked cookie, often silly, sometimes serious and always made with LOVE. Joining me in this episode of Monocycle are Haley Nahman and Amelia Diamond — junior and deputy editors respectively –to make the painting of this picture appear a bit more colorful. More questions? Comments? Ideas? Recommendations? Hit us up below. You know we’re always in there waiting 4 U. Related stories: 6 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Working 10 Women on Success As They Know It Kitchen for Dummies: 10 Things You Need in Your Pantry According to Leandra’s Mom For Men, Leg Abs Are Very Big This Summer 3 New Ways To Wear Your Button Down Shirt In partnership with Newsette Logo by Kelly Shami - legsny.com/ Edited by Nicholas Quazzy Alexander

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:16.6

where they recommend a goal of the day.

0:19.4

One, for example, was drink a calming tea before bed.

0:23.2

Maybe today's will be Listen to Monocycle,

0:27.7

sponsored by Newset, where you stay in the know on the go.

0:33.0

You can subscribe to the mini magazine at thenewzette.com

0:36.6

and you can hang out with man

0:40.1

repeller at you know where. Thanks.

0:51.5

Hi and welcome back to Monocycle. I'm not here alone today. I got Amelia to my right and

0:58.0

Haley to my left and we are going to tell you about the way that a story is born at man

1:04.2

repeller. So where should we start, guys? I think stories are born at manorpeller outside of Manorpeller. So I think, you know,

1:13.6

we're going about our daily lives. We're at dinner tables. We're walking down the street.

1:19.3

The number one thing that people ask me about this job is how do you think of ideas every day?

1:25.1

And I think it's just being hyper aware of your daily life and taking notes of everything that gives you two seconds of a pause. I think it starts

1:35.9

with those little interesting, hey, that was funny, where if you're not tasked with writing

1:41.6

constantly, you might just file away in the back of your brain.

1:44.5

I think that's where it starts.

1:45.6

It's so interesting because before I was at Manorpeller, I would think about a lot of

1:51.8

stuff and talk about it with my friends, and sometimes I would write about it.

1:55.2

Other times I wouldn't.

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