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Crisis Management

November 20, 2006  |  from GUMBO: Angelle Bergeron's Blog on ENR.com

Could we please get on the same page about workforce needs? I may not be a labor expert or an economist, but I am a woman and have been a writer (professionally) for 18 years. In other words, I may not have the stats to back it up, but everywhere I go, people talk and I listen. That's what I do. Observe, listen, record, relate. And let me blow my own horn by saying that during the past seven years that I've been a freelance writer, I have received very little negative feedback from anyone I've interviewed regarding inaccuracy or misrepresentation. That being said, I usually do not have control over the final product. That is left up to editors, publishers and a host of people who often have different priorities, policies and politics in mind for their publications than I do when writing the story. In short, I almost never feel like I have enough space to tell the story I want to tell. An editor friend once told me that while a writer almost always laments what has been left unsaid in the final story, a good editor makes it appear to the reader that the whole story is there.

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