Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last (well, almost).
The big reporting project I've been working on has just been officially accepted as complete by my boss, the mad genius. It's going to be a 14-page package in the magazine–and I had to cut it by half to make the main story fit. Of course, the tightening made it a better story to read, but it also meant that a lot of good material will never see the printed page. A whole 1500-word sidebar will only go online.
And I have about 20 hours of interviews that I've only used a fraction of. I am suffering from TMI — too much information. Some of it, I'll use later in other stories. Some of it, I'll find ways to put online to refresh the story over the month ahead after the original story is posted. Some of it…will never see the light of day. And that's probably a good thing. You'll see what I mean when the article appears in November.
Now, on to the next project.
Sean M. Gallagher 