Thoughts of an Editor
Have you ever wondered what it is like to write for and run an online newspaper? Well, The Central Trend is here to present Thoughts of an Editor. This biweekly collective column will give you a look into what runs through the minds of our three editors. Each installment will be three answers to one question.
Struggles as a writer
Abby - It’s not really having nothing to say—it’s not finding the right words to say them with. It’s getting angry at the words I do have that aren’t good enough for me. It’s recklessly using the words at my disposal, caring not about how abruptly and despairingly I pick them up, pocket them, and throw them away as quickly as I discovered them. It’s wanting the contents of the dic...
When and why we decided to continue
Abby - When the first semester of freshman year—WFP—came to a close, it didn’t even cross my mind that I wouldn’t be continuing the path I so haphazardly stumbled upon. I decided to continue, and I decided to stay, because of the pure rush I feel when a story I’ve worked tirelessly towards gets published and praised. I decided to continue, and I decided to stay, because of words and...
Our Firsts
Abby - I remember so clearly the nervous energy dancing through the room during WFP when Ken George said that we would be learning our last type of story: features. He had been hyping them up for weeks, preparing us for the “hardest story” of the class, and I was actually terrified. WFP had gone well by this point—I won a lead contest, I was feeling comfortable with most of the stories, ...
Our first moment
Abby - In the middle of my first day at the high school, I walked into a classroom that was set up in a completely different way than my previous classes—it looked backwards, upside down, turned around. There were no desks—just a circle of chairs. With a group of kids I had never seen before seated in the chairs, I immediately had second thoughts about joining a class I had never re...
When and why we joined the class
Abby - We know that I am endlessly attracted to words, so when I was flipping through the high school course catalog in eighth grade and saw “Writing for Publication” amongst every other extracurricular, I was instantly intrigued. Writing for the school’s newspaper sounded exciting and intense and fast-paced and fun; the description for the class in the catalog made it sound so appealing...
Why do we write?
Abby - As I clicked on the document for our editor’s column, the third different article I’ve worked on for TCT tonight alone, a thought danced across my mind. A quick little waltz of a thought, a moment of pure, exasperated exhaustion. Why am I even doing this? It was clipped. It was sudden, but it was there. It was that thought amongst many others: it’s late, I want to go to bed, I...
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