100 Word Challenge: Week 12
I can do the story challenge easily – I just let my imagination let rip and then cut out the words to get it back down to 100 words – this week’s challenge is to write it like a news story as it if it had appeared in the paper – well this might be a challenge!
Once again Euro meltdown fear has struck the Greek economy as concerns are raised over whether or not they will be able to make their repayments on their loans. The German government are considering a further bail out for the Greek people. However the Greeks do need to make active moves towards adjusting the national spending to work towards being able to make their repayments. Had it been a mortgage, they would have had their house repossessed however as nation they seem to able to borrow and borrow on a limiteless overdraft, however it’s the Greek people who will suffer.
100 Word Challenge: Week 13
“Here’s Jayne with the travel” Jayne still couldn’t believe that in all the time she had been doing the travel reports on national radio she was going to have to explain that the roads were closed for snow in June.
“The M1 is closed between Junction 14 for Newport Pagnell and Junction 27 for Mansfield. It’s it’s a similar situation on the the A1 from Black Cat heading Northbound towards Leicester and Nottingham. This is due to the unseasonal weather. The Highways Agency are once again insisting that you should only travel if it’s absolutely necessary. Back to you, Steve.”
Two good pieces here Hannah. Well done for getting the journalistic style in the 1st piece.
The second piece is my favourite though. The situation, and Jayne’s reporting style are completely convincing.
Hey SJ!!
Thank you 🙂 I preferred the second one as well! The first one was actually really kinda hard – I don’t think the whole journalism thing is me! Let me write stories again!
I see you’ve written Challenge #13 journalistically, too. It sounds exactly like the reports on the morning news. Good for you!
Yes, it was supposed to be like the traffic report that I hear on the radio on the way to work each morning.
The traffic report is spot on! Well done!
Thanks Dughall.
Splendid! The travel report particularly; just the type of thing you’d hear between tracks on the radio 🙂
Hey Anna
Thank you 🙂 I hear the traffic report every morning on the way to work.
This sounds so true to life that I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it happened! Written just like the radio reports I listen to in the mornings.
I nearly called my character Sally or Lynn after the ladies who do the travel on Radio 2 but then I figured that would be to close so went with Jayne 🙂
LOL – you nearly picked half my name and then pickd the other half. How fab!!
I always struggle with character names so glad it was okay to use part of your name lol.
No 13 made me laugh out loud, because on Saturday, whilst the temperature was just below 30 degrees, the gritting lorries where I live in Hampshire were out gritting the roads. A spokesman for the Council said that it was good to be safe and we didn’t want to get caught unawares again this year.
A funny angle!
Gill
That’s crazy! Then the council will be going on in a few weeks about how they don’t have enough grit to make the roads safe.
Me and my manager left work at the same time the other day and we were talking about the weather – he said he was so excited about it being forecasted to snow in a few weeks, I pointed out that if it does snow it’ll be okay for him to work at home (he lives like 30 miles away and can sign in over the web) but I need like 2 foot of snow to be able to prove that it’s not safe for me to drive to work and it’s too deep for me to walk the 3 miles to work lol.
Snow in June : ) that would be worrying big time! Enjoyed the weather reporter style
I thought it was an interesting twist on the prompt – I figured most people would be writing about how warm it had been so I flipped it on it’s head 🙂
What a great post! You clever lady! I could hear that travel news because it was just as they do it on the radio. Are you an AA person by the way?!!
Hey Julia! Thank you for the comment – I’m not an AA Person lol. I live near the Newport Pagnell junction and my best friend lives near the Mansfield/Nottingham junction so it was easy to throw them into the story 🙂 (But yeah I secretly wish I read the traffic on a national radio station hehe)
Snow in June? How disappointing. Enjoyed reading your stories!
Snow in June would be an absolute crazy idea. It’s a really rare phenomenon which I don’t really understand but you can read about it here. Do you get snow in June in Boston?
We have had snow in May, but not June. While I love the first snow, buy the 20th snow storm, I am done….
Hi Han! I hope your wonderful CK bag will arrive soon, post a pic with it ^_^
It arrived yesterday!!! Woot woot! Was slightly different colour than I expected (I thought it was blue but it’s closer to a greeny-grey colour but I don’t mind!)
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