Writing Your Story, Creating Your Masterpiece
As a freelance writer, one of the most essential components to getting published is the actual writing of your story.
You may want to make an outline for your story. Decide if you will be writing a soft lead or hard-news story. Then, based on the perspective style, format your information appropriately.
Writing and Reporting News:A Coaching Method, the textbook for MMC 2100, states that “The three basic tools of storytelling are theme, descriptive writing techniques and narrative writing techniques.”
Thus, you must first demonstrate your theme and why readers need to know about your story. Writing and Reporting News:A Coaching Method also declares that “All news stories are developed around one main point—a focus. The rest of the story should contain quotes, facts and information to support the main focus.”
Make sure your story answers quesions of: who, what, when,where, why and how?
Use attribution when needed and pay attention to grammar and punctuation. After you have finished writing your story, re-read and revise it carefully.
Source: Rich, Carole. (2007). Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method. 5th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education.
