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.