"Now and Then" Profile: Process Writing

I really wanted to explore a place with my first profile piece. When I realized that Stetson Chapel was intriguing me, and that I didn’t know much about the history of the place or if other students knew much about it, I decided to make it my profile. It was more difficult to do the reporting than I thought it would be. It’s on campus, I’m on campus, everyone to interview is on campus…but I found that everyone is too busy—the faculty, the students (including myself), the staff, all too busy for scheduled interviews. I eventually had to opt for the more casual drop in and hope someone is there approach. Even though it’s a relatively small space on our small campus, it’s also unoccupied or under-occupied most of the day. It definitely helped me to have the extension because I was able to attend a Community Reflection. DOGL messed up my plans of attending last week and before then I’d had to work Friday mornings. But week 9 I sat and listened to “Why Where Drag” and snagged a great interview from Craig Isser. I think one of my struggles thus far in class is that we read these amazing pieces that took years to write and I just know that I can’t do that much interviewing with the time I have. I think that I definitely could have done more with this piece but I’m happy with what I have thus far.