Today, I spent my day reading "Virgin Suicides" and laying poolside. It was rather nice, I have to say. It's been a while since I was able to do that. Quite the Bohemian experience. Plus, I called in to work and Kim told me that I don't have to work next Saturday.
One of the things I've been struggling with is whether or not I'm actually succeeding with my internship. This week I improved moreso than before; I've learned how to write faster and how to get the interviews done speedily. But for some reason I feel as if my stories lack the punch of the other interns'. My TreeHouse Wildlife story made front page and has had a lot of positive feedback from the community. The Telegraph website said it was the fourth most commented story this week, and the editor even wrote a commentary about it. Nevertheless, I haven't had a punchy story to follow it up yet. Well, a punchy assignment from the editor. I'm not sure if it's my writing style or the fact that I'm not a Journalism major. Perhaps I'm reading into this too much (haha, bad pun). Whatever the case, I'm going to figure this out in the next couple of days and hopefully improve my writing for this paper. I love my internship so far and am looking to do better as I continue.
That's about it. Life is rather dull aside from that. I work a 10-3 shift in the morning/afternoon. So, I'd better get going.
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I'd rather read one of your articles than a hundred of other "more successful" articles. I see no slope in quality compared to the top stories in that paper.
I agree. You're already as good as any newspaper columnist I've read and will get better with practice. Make a career of it, or write a book, then you won't have to work at the grocery store anymore. (Got your text, but didn't respond. I'm around most evenings 7 until 1-ish if you want to give a call.)
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