Week #3

 This week, I continued drafting and editing my article, which I’ll mostly spare you all the pretty mundane details of (I wrote a research section and three profiles. Then, I rewrote them. Whoo.) I’ll hear back from Suzanne soon for feedback that will inform my direction for writing and editing next week.

Image: Me writing ft Catie Macauley doing a thumbs up and also writing. 

One challenge this week has been keeping sustained focus on writing. It was much easier last week and the week before when I was researching and conducting interviews because it felt more engaging and novel, whereas while I love writing, I’ve done A LOT of it throughout the past four years of my Catlin Gabel career, and it’s harder to be excited about right now. 

I’m also finding that the style of writing feels less entertaining, because I’m trying to directly and impersonally share information as opposed to creating characters and narratives that require extensive description or arguing through an essay. Between the style and the high school writing burn out, I’m having a hard time sitting still for more than 30-45 minutes at a time (some of which is spent staring at my computer like it’ll magically write for me) before needing a break.  

Hopefully after getting some feedback I’ll be motivated and excited to keep writing going into next week. While the slow going right now isn’t particularly fun, it is teaching me about journalism (which was one of my goals!), and possibly showing me that I wouldn’t enjoy journalistic writing in the future....or maybe I’m just in a bit of a slump at the moment. Either way, I will have a polished article by next Friday.