One day driving home from work I heard an advertisement for "A Night of Hope", a Christian event being held at the Scope Arena. I was suddenly struck by the urge to attend this event and write about it, and sometime during the wee hours of the next morning a carefully worded e-mail with carefully selected examples from this blog was sent off to AltDaily.com asking if they'd be interested in having a non-militant atheist cover the event. Later that morning I received a short reply saying, "Sure, give it a shot and we'll see what happens." I'm barely paraphrasing there, but a week later I'm still damn excited about it.
Since then I have been consumed with the idea of becoming a freelance journalist or at least contributing writing of some kind, some where. I bought a book on feature writing (and a new Moleskine notebook, because really, how could I not), picked up a used voice recorder, I even stayed up late recreating Patrick Bateman's business card with my contact information and website address on it. But more than all of these trifles I've been thinking non-stop about interview questions and articles I'd like to create and actually trying to get put up somewhere. I've been doing research, taking notes, you name it. I guess five years of blogging and scribbling in dozens of notebooks has finally been enough practice for me to feel like I can start trying to get published.
I have three projects on the stove at present: The Christian Thing, Smoking Ban, and Cycling Across America. They came to me while I was either driving or getting Jonas to sleep and I'm really looking forward to interviewing people for each one. It looks like Kasey is going to be my partner in crime and take pictures for me, too. I even talked her into attending "A Night of Hope" with me; don't ask me how.
Even if no one wants the articles I'll still have fun and put them up anyway. We'll just keep plugging along, having fun, and maybe one day I'll get picked up. You never know.
So keep an eye out and if anyone wants to be interviewed just drop me a line. It'll be great practice and you might even get a free drink out of it.
- David
Since then I have been consumed with the idea of becoming a freelance journalist or at least contributing writing of some kind, some where. I bought a book on feature writing (and a new Moleskine notebook, because really, how could I not), picked up a used voice recorder, I even stayed up late recreating Patrick Bateman's business card with my contact information and website address on it. But more than all of these trifles I've been thinking non-stop about interview questions and articles I'd like to create and actually trying to get put up somewhere. I've been doing research, taking notes, you name it. I guess five years of blogging and scribbling in dozens of notebooks has finally been enough practice for me to feel like I can start trying to get published.
I have three projects on the stove at present: The Christian Thing, Smoking Ban, and Cycling Across America. They came to me while I was either driving or getting Jonas to sleep and I'm really looking forward to interviewing people for each one. It looks like Kasey is going to be my partner in crime and take pictures for me, too. I even talked her into attending "A Night of Hope" with me; don't ask me how.
Even if no one wants the articles I'll still have fun and put them up anyway. We'll just keep plugging along, having fun, and maybe one day I'll get picked up. You never know.
So keep an eye out and if anyone wants to be interviewed just drop me a line. It'll be great practice and you might even get a free drink out of it.
- David
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