This semester has been insane--absolutely insane. I cannot remember the last time I was not rushing to be somewhere, or the last time I was able to work out, watch television, or do anything else I like to do. I feel like at this point there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it is faint, but it is still there. That light is still being masked by the rest of the articles I have due, the tests I have to take, the scholarship deadlines I have to meet, and just end of the year plans. I am completely drowning in work right now, and yet I am still hopeful because I know that the end is near.
One thing I will be glad to have done and out of the way is a profile article for Magazine and Freelance Writing. At first I thought it was going to be extremely simple because you just write the story of their life, but as I am beginning to write it, I am becoming intimidated by the amount of information I have to work with (over an hour of interviews on audio) and sift through. I do not really know where to take the story and what the focus will be. Just seeing that hour's worth of audio on the recorder is so daunting that I do not know where to start. I do not know how to integrate direct quotes into the story, even I even have to for that matter. I am confident that my article will turn out well and that I will be okay, but just looking at what little I have so far and thinking about how easy I thought it was going to be is making my stomach churn.
