> > Well, I have a dilemma. For my journalism class, I am supposed to write an article about something that would interest people, that people would like to read. The problem is, I have absolutely no ideas. Anyone know of anything that would interest readers, especially those of a high school age?
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> > I wouldn't post this unless I had no other alternatives, but seeing that that the term ends in a couple of weeks and I have written absolutely nothing in that class, I need HELP!!!
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> > Mi"who has nothing clever to say here"a
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> I haven't taken such a class, but here's a question:
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> What would interest *you*?
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> This is a good question, because:
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> 1) There's likely to be someone else who's interested in the same thing, and
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> 2) if *you're* not interested in the subject, it's more likely to come across as boring, and that's no good.
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> Nyperold

When I was teaching, I heard "I don't know anything to write about," all the time. I usually said the same thing Nyperold told you: Write about something that is interesting to you.
If you can look out the window and not see anything to write about, you aren't paying attention! You can write about anything. I looked outside while ago and saw a squirrel hiding hickory nuts in a bale of straw. There's a story there if I think about it for a while.
A friend of mine bought a new truck. Two weeks later he had another new truck just like the first one but a different color. You should have heard the story behind that one! My grandson said his class was going to a cave for a field trip. We talked for an hour about caves. Have you ever been to a cave?
When I was reporter, the editor was always handing me an article and telling me to do a followup. Sometimes it's hard to pick one up cold like that, but with a little research, I always did him a story. Look in the paper. They leave a lot of stuff untold.
I like to write "what if" stories. An airplane overran the runway in California the other day and narrowly missed a gas station. What if...
A little Cuban boy survived the sinking of a makeshift boat and wound up in Florida at the center of an international tug-of-war. His mother didn't make it. How would that story have been different if she had survived?
Look at old buildings. There's a story or two behind every one of them.
Look at a vacant lot. What would you like to see there?
And there's always the one about what you would do if somebody gave you a million bucks.
Have fun,
Howard