online report - As a writer

As a writer

I still think that what London Out Loud attracts people more is the lay out not articles themselves, though some latest comments showed that people were very interested at our fourth issue – SEX.

Now I’ve got into a groove of writing one feature plus a piece of news per week. Thinking back the last ten weeks, on weekdays we had classes and shooting tasks as well as at weekends for the first five weeks when doing TV, after which when we were doing radio, interviews could be done only during weekdays.

So writing for online for me in fact became a “leisure time”, at which time I could summarize what I did on TV or radio as an online feature, or be involved in a certain news deeply when doing research to write it.

We have four issues and I contributed seven articles, five features with two pieces of news.

For issue one – Chinese New Year, just in time I was doing TV documentary China: Generation Next, as a result I had chance, or to say I had to spend whole days to shoot events and celebrations, so I know what happened I have the first hand material.

To write about what China in London 2008 offered and Londoners reaction was not hard for me. As for the one Year of the Rat which talked about fortune and fate, it was Wen task and she suddenly went back to China, so I took over the feature reasonably.

For issue two – London Olympics, I was in charge of a feature of International Women’s Day and news of London future plan’s launching. I think the most important and difficult thing is first I need to understand the context through many researching and then though about how to arrange lots of information to let readers understanding what was going to happen.

For issue three – London Arts, there was one feature I needed to cover. It was the Taste East festival, I really wanted to go there and taste free food as well as drinks, but what a big shame that the two afternoons’ food festival met with International Women’s Day which was my radio feature topic. I had no choice here.

For issue four – Sexy London. The two distributed topic chanced to meet my interest – manga and wireless network. It was easier for me to write, as I visited the three manga shops I recommended very often. The other one’s situation was just the same. Everyone feels easier to research and write what they are interested or familiar with.