Work Experience Express & Echo/Features

My second Women in Business Feature went in today. It was a column the Echo have been running for a little while and Gordon asked me to have a go at. I wrote the piece in the first person after interviewing Celina West. I'd interviewed Liz Hodges the week before and done the same thing. 

Liz Hodges article was harder to interview easier to write. Celina was easy to interview, but harder to write as she had so much more riding on the published article. I was pleased to see they published my article on their website too. www.sarahwestrecruit.co.uk

Gordon had changed the order around. This is something I keep coming up against. The paragraphs seem to be fine, but they're in the wrong order, ie. the priority of which to put first, second etc isn't always right. I was glad to see he hadn't really changed the wording, just the order. 

Strange to see something in print you've written. If it gets changed it takes away that delight for me. I wrote an obituary, and it was changed around slightly and they spelt my name wrong. After that it didn't give me the same pleasure as reading a very short article I'd written which had been put in word for word. Something about pride and the fact that it's printed word for word being equivalent to a 'tick' on a marked piece of work. 

Anyway, the article has gone in, it was a professional which I recommended us to interview and I was pleased it hadn't been pulled. :D