Post by End Zone on Sept 26, 2020 4:05:37 GMT -7
Thomas Cat, thank you for the valuable feedback. Here with my full disclosure on the Sunday Game Day column preparation and management --
Since I started filling in for Westgate's Sunday Game Day column, I spend maybe 2-3 hours researching and writing my Sunday Game Day column beginning on Thursday or Friday. I could spend more time on this project but that's all the time I can spare and when I can start writing. I do work fulltime and I have a wonderful wife and McMansion that both needs loving care 24/7. I know exactly where to go for the column data. Writing the paragraphs that tell the best story is the most fun part of the project. I type at 80-100 WPM. I first prepare the column at MS Word, do spell-check and grammar check, and reread the column at least 2-3 times before posting.
I desire to post the Sunday Game Day column so that Forum members can read it with their Friday night whiskeys or Saturday morning coffees. At roughly 0-24 hours prior to game kickoff, the thread is unlocked. Unlock time is arbitrary, to allow for last minutes changes and updates, to ensure that comments at the Sunday Pre-Game thread are not interfered with or contradicted, and to eliminate member confusion about where to post their freshest thoughts. Writer's coordination, posting and unlocking, and timing are all important.
I spend the most time researching the history of the team the Cardinals will play next, past games of interest between the two teams (Arizona played Detroit to a memorable tie at Game 1 in 2019), and personalities of the game (players, coaches, owners, etc). I want to tell an interesting story always, one that includes emotions, senses, colors, and vivid memories -- good writers to that well. I want to avoid writing about things that someone has already posted about, that is easily found on at NFL.com, ESPN, and team sites, or that is definitely hearsay, untrue, or a falsehood. I strive to be fair, accurate, informative, and enthusiastic about the next football game and the two teams. There is no room for hatefulness, deceitfulness, and blatant homerism in my columns.
I passed the above information to assist my replacement at a future date to write the Sunday Game Day column.
My way forward. When I retire-retire, probably in mid 2021, I may step back from Forum contributions: TBD. I will become a full-time novelist and write for fun until the day I die. I started my first novel this past winter 2020. I have two outlines ready to go for companion novels #2 and #3. The making of a trilogy is well underway. The novel storyline is a secret until I publish. The storyline is definitely not about pro football. :-)
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Since I started filling in for Westgate's Sunday Game Day column, I spend maybe 2-3 hours researching and writing my Sunday Game Day column beginning on Thursday or Friday. I could spend more time on this project but that's all the time I can spare and when I can start writing. I do work fulltime and I have a wonderful wife and McMansion that both needs loving care 24/7. I know exactly where to go for the column data. Writing the paragraphs that tell the best story is the most fun part of the project. I type at 80-100 WPM. I first prepare the column at MS Word, do spell-check and grammar check, and reread the column at least 2-3 times before posting.
I desire to post the Sunday Game Day column so that Forum members can read it with their Friday night whiskeys or Saturday morning coffees. At roughly 0-24 hours prior to game kickoff, the thread is unlocked. Unlock time is arbitrary, to allow for last minutes changes and updates, to ensure that comments at the Sunday Pre-Game thread are not interfered with or contradicted, and to eliminate member confusion about where to post their freshest thoughts. Writer's coordination, posting and unlocking, and timing are all important.
I spend the most time researching the history of the team the Cardinals will play next, past games of interest between the two teams (Arizona played Detroit to a memorable tie at Game 1 in 2019), and personalities of the game (players, coaches, owners, etc). I want to tell an interesting story always, one that includes emotions, senses, colors, and vivid memories -- good writers to that well. I want to avoid writing about things that someone has already posted about, that is easily found on at NFL.com, ESPN, and team sites, or that is definitely hearsay, untrue, or a falsehood. I strive to be fair, accurate, informative, and enthusiastic about the next football game and the two teams. There is no room for hatefulness, deceitfulness, and blatant homerism in my columns.
I passed the above information to assist my replacement at a future date to write the Sunday Game Day column.
My way forward. When I retire-retire, probably in mid 2021, I may step back from Forum contributions: TBD. I will become a full-time novelist and write for fun until the day I die. I started my first novel this past winter 2020. I have two outlines ready to go for companion novels #2 and #3. The making of a trilogy is well underway. The novel storyline is a secret until I publish. The storyline is definitely not about pro football. :-)
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