I've
done a lot of preparation for this particular project. I've learned
the basics of touch typing (here
and here)
and shorthand (here).
I've tried to improve my writing over the years and deliver
information with a bit more journalistic professionalism. It's now
time to take this blog up a level.
For
the next month I'll be visiting Manchester looking for stories and
information, and hopefully beating the MEN and other publications to the scoops.
So what might I come across?
I
have in mind to report on book signings, nightlife events, arrests
and celebrity appearances. I'll talk to police and security
professionals, journalists and other bloggers in the hope that I'll
help people as well as entertain them with the writing I publish.
I'll talk to existing contacts, and forge new ones. I'll go out with
a reporter's notebook and my camera phone. I'll wear knee pads so I
can climb onto things to get filming vantage points. I'll get
pictures and video. I'll talk to people about things and record sound
on the Mini Recorder app. And then I'll get home and upload it all as
quickly as possible. It's going to mean a few very late nights!
I'm
aiming to get the kind of hits I got back in 2014- in some periods
this was 15-30k hits a month. January's hits? 2k. A challenge lies
ahead!
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