Category: personal
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From the Notebooks: Almost like the movies
This is the first assignment I submitted for UP Film Institute’s summer workshop on screenwriting. Before we learned the nitty-gritties of a script, we were tasked to write a non-fiction composition about a favorite memory. I picked the memory of my first prom/grad night. It is, I think, one of the happier moments of my…
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Back to Scratch
It was one of those days when nothing came out right. So rather than punch the computer screen, I took to the paper. Just so you know, world, paper and pen are so not dead.
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Ethics, Coverage, and a Prayer
Pay Per Publish An acquaintance, T, asked me for press contacts to send press releases to, and said that each print of PR subject would entitle the writer to P5000. As someone who got her foot in the industry through PR writing, I was unsettled with the idea. I wondered if it was just personal:…
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Reader Response: Boyfriend Beware of the Girl Who Reads
A response to this entry, as one reader/writer. Are you sure you’re not drunk? I’ve read enough young adult literature to beware of boys like you who come up to nerds like me. Just so you’d know, the glasses are not a signal of desperation, it means that I can see well enough to scrutinize…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting “Un” with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…