Fellowship Diary 2010
It was good to talk
“It’s good to talk.” So goes a well-known British Telecom advertising slogan. BT is quite right: it is good to talk. This was the first year in four years of editing the Fellowship that I actually traveled to the region to meet and talk to the writers in person before editing their projects.
Strange Times in Skopje
It was hard, stressful but exciting. I still can’t believe the Fellowship Programme is going to end very soon. It started in May, and I thought it was going to be a very long year until October, the time we expect our stories to be published. Surprise! October has just arrived!
Completing the B Ring
I finally managed to close the B Ring, after almost five months of travel and research. And what do you think the “B Ring” is? A network of cities and places I traveled across this summer.
Ten Intros later...
Compose, write, delete. Compose, write, delete. Compose, write delete.
My last stop
On my last stop in the reporting travels I was in Belgrade for two extremely hot days. I visited the Autonomous Women's Center, an NGO devoted to affirming women's rights and combat domestic violence.
The hardest thing in my research
Getting a visa to travel to Croatia was one of my biggest challenges in this fellowship project!
Two months of silence, so much info
It has been two months since I updated my travel log with the fellowship. Honestly, I did not know exactly what to write besides regular personal travel impressions, which are not very interesting.
New Depth and Vision Gained in Vienna
I like to support my reporting by reading relevant sociological studies or philosophical takes on the subject I’m writing about.
Now is the time to write
Travel time is over. After Kosovo, Serbia and Germany, now it’s time to sit down and listen to my interviews. There are so many of them. And I have to put it all in 2,500 words.
Heat Follows Me Everywhere, Even to London
I know now that I should have cut out and collected those newspaper headlines.
Fellows
Topic
Topic 2010: Taboo
Taboos change – rapidly. Homosexuality was once a taboo in Western Europe, as was “living in sin”, [i.e. outside marriage], abortion, childlessness, physical disabilities, atheism and suicide
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