Too Turnt Tuesday!

Hello I'm Natalie and welcome to Tuesday!

I've been posting on this blog too much and I probably need to get some work done but this is really cool!!! So today Olivia and I went down to the LGBT Resource Center and did some interviews for our LGBT Life at UGA article. It's been kind of crazy playing around with this article and seeing where we want to go with it and finding a definite angle. We were originally going to do LGBT life in Athens but the closer to home, the better as our deadline is Wednesday and we need to get interviews done ASAP! We did 2 interviews today. Lucky for us, the senior coordinator of the Center, Mr. Josh Fletcher, hooked us up with some great students to interview about LGBT life and the role of the center. They were both so lively and adorable and I loved them so much! They gave great, long, elaborated answers and talking to them was just so effortless, truly a great interview. The only complaint that I have would've been that the interview itself was 45 minutes long! Normally I like to type up the whole interview and then pick quotes from there but I don't think thats going to be possible given the extremely short deadline. So this might be a challenge for me! We also interviewed the director of the Center and he was kind of useful, but not as much as his answers were very short and slightly impersonal. We also have the Stem Cell Research Article and honestly, God help us because we have like one source and the angle is barely shaping up. We haven't done a single interview and I'm seriously stressing! With rough drafts due tomorrow, we're going to need some serious help on this one. Hopefully I can lean on my counterparts for this one. Last, but certainly not least, the Journalism Camp spread. I'm kind of saving that one for last because I feel like it will be pretty easy as long as I get a quote from Joe, the Dean, and maybe a few students and I can throw it together in no time. Well, I'll have to. I think the best part about interviewing someone is seeing their real personality shine through. I love when the interviewee starts leading the conversation in a different direction than what I had originally planned. At first its  kind of terrifying but I know that this person has a story that they'v been dying to tell and, as a journalist, its my job to make them heard. The hardest part is probably when someone doesn't take me seriously in an interview and gives me really short, boring answers. At that point I know I pretty much just have to try another source because this person won/t help me. The scariest part is probably interviewing someone in a position of authority or approaching someone when they are around a lot of other people and asking them for an interview. When I first started interviewing people, I was surprised by their willingness to talk to me and really open up to me about their personal lives. I love hearing all their different stories because it gives me perspective about how big the world really is. Getting a good quote is honestly the best feeling in the world. When someone says a great quote, my face lights up and I can visualize the phrase floating through my field of vision. I imagine how great it's going to sound woven in with my own commentary and how it's truly going to make readers think or understand or even care deeply about the story. Journalism freaking rocks and even though sometimes I cry and scream because of crazy deadlines, its the 7 billion stories that truly keep me going and make me passionate about, well, my passion.

Happy Tuesday! (Even though I submitted this on a Wednesday lol)

CYA!! -Natalie Shay Clark
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