Adopting a story idea is painstaking: we wander the halls of history discerning a good idea from a bad, but also whether we could care about topic enough to pursue it for eight weeks and write 3,000 words. We think globally, emotionally and academically, but the area we are always told to shy away from is locally - stories about friends and family are strictly forbidden. The beginning stages of any workshop centers around contemplating story ideas: what events could we recreate? What did we have a desire to know more about? But most importantly, what event would tell a great story. In journalism, the most agonizing concept is story idea, story idea, story idea. As a junior literary journalism student, I took a literary journalism workshop on the art of reconstruction with Professor Barry Siegel.Įvery real-estate agent will tell you it’s all about location, location, location.
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