My final day here at Remarkable was great.
I carried on with the tea blog, as I was asked to find more UK bloggers and tweeters which was tedious but not particularly difficult, i just had to maintain focus and scrolling ability.
I also finished the Aldi press release, redrafting some of it until it was less 'salesy' and more 'newsy'.
I was also asked to hone down my blog for their website to a sheer 300 words, which was difficult but helped me practice even more with writing in a journalistic context - shorter, punchier, snappier but still informative.
I also finally completed the Linden Homes press release for Ben who finally commented that it was 'more on the money' and didn't ask me to redraft even though he'll no doubt make significant changes. It's been great learning from him actually. As a senior writer on the team and having been in journalism 9.5 years before starting here, his expertise is greatly received and appreciated. He offered me ideas of what to do in the future such as doing a specific course for 6 months that teaches journalistic writing. It's clear that he doesn't exactly approve of doing a degree in Creative Writing and thinks that it's not really an appropriate gateway for journalism and to be fair, it isn't. Writing fiction and writing for the media are two starkly different concepts. However, that's why I'm doing work experience, to gain these extra skills and insights to couple with my degree.
I've certainly learnt a lot from my time here, from insights into the PR business, to learning the right spiel and writing tones. I'd definitely love to come back and do more work experience here in the future if they'll have me!
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