One thing I had not expected to encounter when doing my internship this summer was writing stories about my friends. I am not sure why this thought never occurred to me, we all go to the same college and I am writing articles for my college this summer, so it would make sense that I would write a few articles about friends. It doesn't help that all of my friends live with jam packed schedules and plenty of responsibility. I kinda wish they were all slackers like me.
I had a difficult decision to make. I was writing a story about Bestfriend's internship. The problem is that when I was interviewing her she talked like she would to me and not to a reporter, so I can now directly quote her, or I can para quote her so she won't hate me later. But if I know that she would say it that way is it really Franken quoting?
Franken (like Frankenstein, get it?) quoting is when a PR person patches a quote, so it isn't a direct quote but can be used as one... It happens quite a bit. People get angry when you quote them saying something stupid. Not that I blame them, I want to sound as good as possible when being quoted.
The number one rule of writing is...
If you want to stay friends with people don't write about them using their name... And if you are saying something bad about them don't let them read it. Ever.
Or you could just never write, that is much easier.
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