The birth of regularity

There have been a few things that have recently inspired me to do what I've always said I'm going to do, and I'm going to do it now in my latest pledge - I will keep this blog REGULAR! One form of inspiration was a Tweet from a follower of mine who tried spruiking me to his followers. It read: "@Katiinkaa has an irregular but interesting blog..." before a link. So that means people DO read what I write sometimes. Which is awesome. And what good samaritanism too, total champ. @Noelinho, if you read this, thanks.

Now that I'm in Dubbo and settled with good Internet, I can finally uphold this idea.

Might as well start this regularity with a general update on my life as it is at this point in time... working as a journalist is a challenge every day. There are some days where everything falls into place and you bang things out and it's easy-peasy. Some where you find yourself starting well with contacts and then hitting a roadblock. Or vice-versa. And then there are days where it's 3pm and you don't have at least one submitted story. Those days are the pits.

Opposing all that, last week was the best yet. Week 10 didn't feel like a stellar week but there were major milestones. My first week of court reporting without assistance. Hitting 2.5 months and no longer being the new(est) kid on the block. And outside of work, finally uploading all my Europe photos onto Facebook. Which was a frickin' long time coming, but I follow through with these things.

But the biggest thing that affected me was realising (yet again) that you can't have it all. In this case I was very proud to discover five out of six of our front pages (Monday-Saturday) featured my stories. At the same time certain things or people in my life were lacking - for example, not being able to go properly with anyone who's followed my journey to celebrate. But you take what good you can get with gusto. And for me, the career is obviously a worthy focus right now.

For those non-writers out there, what do you think makes a good front-page story? If you had a choice what would YOU write about?