Writing Process: Second Article

My second piece for the Inkwell was to profile an exercise group leader at the Student Recreation Center. I went to classes at the Rec. Center, so I was familiar with the instructors. I chose Christina Marmo as my topic because her work schedule fit best with the days that I had school.

Before I interviewed Marmo,  I went online to Armstrong.edu and looked at their profile that they have for each of their personal trainers. That was another angle I could explore. I looked at the schedule of when she taught classes, so I could attend different classes than the ones that I took.

I interviewed Marmo after watching one of her classes. I learned her rituals for conducting a class. I learned her mantras because several of the students could repeat it. Actually going to the class and seeing how she interacted with the different groups was very helpful in writing the article.

After the class, I interviewed her and was prepared with questions that made it easier for her to give me great quotes for the article. After I finished interviewing her, I talked to several of the students who took the class and got quotes from them about the class and Marmo.  This was a great asset when writing the article because it gave me more fuel for the article.

Writing this article was significantly easier than writing the first article because of my familiarity with the subject and the amount of research that I had.

I sent the article into my editor. She pulled one part out of the middle of it and wanted me to beef it up and make it the lead of the article. That was the only re-writing that I had to do on the article and only basic grammatical problems had to be changed before it went to print.