Writing the Story
Sometimes just getting started is the most difficult part.
Writing the Story
Writing is the one of the most fundamental aspects of your citizen media project. Bloggers, journalists, podcasters, and filmmakers must learn to put their perspectives, thoughts, and opinions down into words as a story. Writing your story can be the most exciting and liberating aspect of citizen media, and it can be also the hardest part. A common question for anyone starting out is: how do I write my story (about an issue, a person, a community, a neighborhood, a cause, or beyond) in a interesting, and engaging way?
In this guide we'll review some basic principles to compelling writing, suggest workshop activities to get participants thinking about how to describe the people and places around them, and point to resources and blogs that should get the writing juices flowing.
