This is the busiest week of my year. I have a deadline this weekend on a special 16-page, tabloid-format section previewing the Fall sports at our two local high schools. The entire section is my responsibility--photos, stories, graphics, layout, cover, etc.
It's a lot of work, although maybe not as bad as it sounds. Most of the pages are half-filled with ads. The articles are rather formulaic, and the photos are boring team portraits. (It's also easier the second time around.)
On top of that, I've to fill the sports pages even though there are no sports going on at the moment. This is my week for my specialty section--the Outdoors feature. This Outdoors section is on a guy who climbed Denali in Alaska. He grew up in town and now lives an hour away. And this week, I'm doing the feature story for our "B" section. I wrote an article and photographed a guy making wood sculptures with a chainsaw. Not a bad feature, if I may say so.
Outdoors is ready to be layed-out and the "B" feature is layed-out by another editor. My sports articles are reported, but I need to write them and lay them out tomorrow.
Oh well, off to get photos of teams practicing. Probably won't be back on here until next week sometime!
Posted by JRC at August 16, 2004 05:09 PM | TrackBack