Big Sean

Last week in class was the final workshop for the "Big Sean" news story. Looking at my grade, I realized that I did a pretty good job. Hopefully, during today's test, I will be able to bring my "A" game.

Progress

Last week in class I had to tweak a few minor details in my Big Sean news story. I habitually forget that quotes need their own line. Also, a few of my sentences have awkward phrasing when I try to make the sentence structure too complicated. However, I feel that my Big Sean news story is better than my Snowiest City news story. I learned that I actually love interviewing people, but I need to start using less direct quotes and more paraphrased sentences. Also, I am continually working on setting my quotes up better and better each week.

News Stories

Last class, we focused more on news stories as a whole instead of just summary leads. I much prefer to write whole news stories instead of just summary leads. There is not as much pressure to word it just the right way or to condense it to 25-30 words. Writing the whole news story makes be feel more comfortable with language use. Writing news is not my strong point whereas creative writing is. I think I like to make the news too fancy or I get carried away with creative language and forget that news is not meant to be necessarily creative.

The Write Timing

Last Tuesday in class, I remember feeling how confident I was in my newstory. However, I realized how much work I actually need to do to it. I love writing creatively, so writing in "news" style is difficult. I, personally, love to give readers a smile or a witty line rather than cold hard facts. I am coming to realize that it is not important to have frilly and witty lines in newswriting, but, instead, to make absolute sure that the reader knows the facts. I guess what i've learned most is that there is a time to write creatively and a time to write factually.