Jennifer Moody

Jennifer Moody is an amazing person who in my 50 minutes of meeting has taught me alot.

In class she and her personal life has taught me how to be a better writer, and to follow my goals. Her columns in the Albany Democrat-Herald is just some of the ways she one on one with her readers. She gets the information out to the public and never seems to choose sides of the right or the wrong.

Some of the things I learned from Jennifer Moody are that there is no right way to write a feature story. That everyone is different and that we are to let our imaginations soar.

When writing a story we need to be accurate and fair, and always try to avoid yourself. It depletes a story when we use the words "I", "my", and "me".

Jennifer Moody has a family just like herself. Her daughter is into editing and conventions also. She told us a story about when her daughter and her were looking for ideas and her daughter freaked out about the spelling and conventions of the note cards they were looking at.

One things that helped me are that great ideas don't always come from ourselves. That some great ideas come from everyday activities and what other people want.

You can get ideas from the calendar, buisness meetings, and even what you saw on your way to the grocery store. "Don't write about the bakery, Write about the piece of pie." says Moody when it comes to writing your story try to give as much detail as possible.

In what I have heard and seen she is a person we can all look up to for following our goals and dreams.

At a Glance
Who: Jennifer Moody
What: Writer at the Albany Democrat-Herald
When: Started in 95'
Why: She has the passion for writing

Feature Story Critique

The first feature story that I critiqued was out of the Linn Benton Community College paper called the Commuter.

It is a campus local paper that is simple, but they always have interesting stories, and get in touch with their community.

The story that I went over was out of the most recent issue of March, the story is called "Compliments Can Be Kind". The story is about how compliments to the opposite sex can be taken the wrong way and in the mean time people can get "creeped out".

Adam LaMascus the writer of the story put it together very well. There were very few errors, and it was just the right length. It wasn't too short to where you are wondering what else, and its not too long to where you are bored half way through the story.

I agree with Adam about the content with the story. Compliments can be kind. They are not always a person who is checking you out, or secretly undressing you in your mind. People need to learn how to take compliments, and not get weired out.

Compliments are meant for good, not bad. People of the opposite sex may actually think you look nice. Many women and men do spend an hour in front of the mirror in the morning.

Like Adam says in his story, "If I spent that much time trying to make myself look good, I'd be offended if somebody didn't compliment me". So in other words, good story Adam, and I agree we all need to learn how to take compliments.