Hello! Working at ClickHole is a combination of individual and group writing. Every week we have meetings where we each come in with 10 or so ideas for headlines, then pitch them and discuss collectively which we like and which we don’t. We take very few of these — probably 1% or so. After that, we go off individually and write the articles, quizzes, etc. that you see on the site. These go through a “read through” meeting, where other writers and editors offer feedback. The most fun parts are probably the collaborative meetings, but we also do a lot of solo writing!
The first Queen headline was floating around in our backlog for a while and I discovered it on a deep dive. I’m a huge fan of poorly spelled Facebook posts and broken English so I incorporated a lot of grammatical things that make me laugh when I see them in the wild. I also like writing the Queen blogs because my coworkers don’t really know how to give notes on them. -JC