Newswriting is different than feature writing. After I was told that I gave away too much information in my lead of my Hanna Gardner story, I made sure I did not give too much away in bowling story. I kept that score to the end. In the first hour of class today, we were told that the score needed to be in the first three or four paragraphs. Awesome. At least I wasn't the only one, and now I know. I was wondering about that, because I had read a lot of newspaper articles that had given the score and big events early, instead of saving them for last. I guess that's different when it is a game story. Something to learn every day.
I was able to read a lot about my "disappointing" bowling performance, to copy the word used in the second story we critiqued. I had started to move on, but read that word first thing this morning, so it almost put me right back in that place haha. At least I played some basketball last night so I could see I still have some athletic ability.
We read a piece that Professor Crothers had written for Sports Illustrated in 2001. It was about a Carolina-Duke game, and it was informative to hear the process that Crothers went through to get the information for his story, especially since his plan of getting on the team bus fell through at the last minute. I hope to use the knowledge of what he had to do to get the details for his story to help me when researching my own stories.
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