Yesterday I wrote the Gazette's splash.It's my first so an epiphany.
I’ve written more emotive and I like to think, riveting prose.
But a splash’s a splash and whatever’s most newsworthy of the editor’s choice.
It’s all over the nationals this week so topical.
And at Enfield its unwritten, but an understood given, that we are on the pulse on what is and should be too.
The piece saw me locating and then running after a team of refuse collection people for quotes on deadline day and ringing up a photographer who was on another job to get down there a.s.a.p. to snap them in action. Energetic.
The story is too long for web but this what the headline said:
Amid fears of stinking rubbish lining our streets,
we are pleased to tell you plans for forthnightly rubbish collections are BINNED!
6 comments:
Nadia,
I've read your blog with interest. Was wondering if you could help me... I've been thinking about writing for quite a while, and not done a whole lot about it yet. I was looking at The Writer's Bureau course in Freelance Journalism- have you heard of it? Would you recommend it?
I don't want to write full-time at present, but develop my skills as a sideline. Do you have any tips as to the best way forward?
Thanks
Jo
Hi Jo
Thanks for visiting. I'm not sure I know about the Bureau. Unless its that obscure advert I sometimes see on the back of the Guardian's Guide. I don't know if its any good as I don't know anyone who has done it.
I did some short-courses at the London College of Printing a long time ago and recommend going there. But that was after |I was already writing for websites (how I started). I start
A course may give you the confidence you need, but essentially the key is to just get published. How you do that is by finding a publication you want to write for and bombard them with ideas.
Hope helps
N x
Well done on the splash. I hope you didn't call them 'refuse collection people' on the front, though. Wouldn't bin men have been better?
Hello anon
FYI 'refuse collection people'was not used so you will apoprove!
but I felt 'bin men'was too sexistso found a way of avoiding that too!
Don't tell me, it was 'waste collection engineers'! What did you call 'em?
Hey, had not visited in a while, so I decided to drop by. How's it going?
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