Choosing topics to write on
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- How do you know what makes a good topic to write about?
- Lynn
It depends what you’re writing for. In a way, you need to know your target audience. So if you’re writing for your school magazine or newspaper, you’re going to want to find a topic that the maximum number of students, and maybe even their parents, would be interested in doing. So, think about who you want to read your item, and then have a think about something that’s topical, would be my very broad-brushed opinion.
- Julie
Yeah, I agree. I think it’s something that’s going to appeal to the most amount of people that you can think of. So…yeah that’s, that’s a good guideline. Yeah.
- Lynn
And if you are interested in it, it always makes it easier. I mean all of us have done stories or interviewed people about things that we don’t have a great deal of interest in. The role of the journalist is to take something like that and make it as interesting as you possibly can. Really find the angle. Find something in there that would make it of interest, so that’s where your nosiness, and your creativity and your lateral thinking come in. But it’s much easier to put your heart into something when it’s something you care about too, so use that as a guiding principle as well, if you can.