Maybe There's Something In This After All
I received one of the best professional comments I've ever had tonight. I was sitting through the Westerville planning commission meeting, and followed a guy into the lobby to grab a business card.
When I introduced myself and said I work for the paper, the guy recognized my name. I wanted to do a story about his business, and he seemed happy to hear it. He commented that I've been really busy lately, and I asked him what he meant. He said there had been a lot of big things going on in Westerville lately, and every time he saw a story about something that meant anything my by-line was on it.
He mentioned a couple specific stories I had written in the previous weeks, and when I shook his hand, he said he was excited that I was writing a story about his business, because he thought I'd do a good job.
That's a damned good feeling. And it comes on a good day, a day after pissing off nearly half of my sources in one afternoon. It might be hard sometimes, and thankless a lot of the time, but this writing thing just might work out. Besides, shooting guns is the only other thing I do well, and a military haircut is a little too short for my liking.
When I introduced myself and said I work for the paper, the guy recognized my name. I wanted to do a story about his business, and he seemed happy to hear it. He commented that I've been really busy lately, and I asked him what he meant. He said there had been a lot of big things going on in Westerville lately, and every time he saw a story about something that meant anything my by-line was on it.
He mentioned a couple specific stories I had written in the previous weeks, and when I shook his hand, he said he was excited that I was writing a story about his business, because he thought I'd do a good job.
That's a damned good feeling. And it comes on a good day, a day after pissing off nearly half of my sources in one afternoon. It might be hard sometimes, and thankless a lot of the time, but this writing thing just might work out. Besides, shooting guns is the only other thing I do well, and a military haircut is a little too short for my liking.
Labels: ThisWeek, Westerville, Writing
posted by Merlin at 10:39 PM
3 Comments:
You have to have bad days to appreciate the good ones
Aw, that's great! It's nice to know that people are not only aware of your work, but respect it and value it, too. I admit, I don't read either of our papers as much as I should, but I've always enjoyed reading the stuff you write.
Why don't you have the RSS feed function on your website? Craig just taught me how to use it and I can't make yours work.....*tear
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