lyn riddle
Lessons learned from the writing life.
Telling stories. That’s what I’ve been doing for years. 
It is both a privilege and profound responsibility to write about peoples’ lives and the places they live, each story bearing a universal theme - hope or despair, accomplishment or adversity, love or loss.
I used to think as a journalist I was simply someone on the sidelines of life, watching other people do things. But I can say with certainty this is a profession that can and does bring needed change. Newspapers, in particular, offer readers the chance to see inside government and business, to look at the world from someone else’s point of view, to understand a circumstance previously mysterious.
An honorable profession. Still.
It is both a privilege and profound responsibility to write about peoples’ lives and the places they live, each story bearing a universal theme - hope or despair, accomplishment or adversity, love or loss.
I used to think as a journalist I was simply someone on the sidelines of life, watching other people do things. But I can say with certainty this is a profession that can and does bring needed change. Newspapers, in particular, offer readers the chance to see inside government and business, to look at the world from someone else’s point of view, to understand a circumstance previously mysterious.
An honorable profession. Still.