What Will I Do?

Will Ritchie - Online Editor

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Will Ritchie
October 2, 2009
Filed under Blogs

This online thing is tough. So much time is spent posting stories, correcting photos, and messing with the Internet, I barely have time to write stories. And I miss that.

Writing stories is fun. The stress of a deadline. The nervous awkward interviews. The running back for one question. But being active on therideronline.com keeps me to the point where I write less, not more. I keep getting yelled at frequently by Mallett and others asking where the stories I’m supposed to write have disappeared to. Then later I am yelled at for falling behind on what I should have posted.

This is not a pity party story, it’s more of a try to understand why I’m late story. I’m human story. I have a job, I have a strange life, and I’m just trying to prepare for college. On top of that I have to handle all the excuses people give me for not getting their stories in. I have to edit all the ones I’m given. I have to post them. And somewhere in there I have to write my own.

This is all expected in your senior year, things are turned upside down, and launching this online paper has been a constant constraint on what I can and can’t do. Trying to find a balance is tougher than it sounds and it seems like most of my free time comes at ten or eleven when I finally get to sleep. So if a story is late, or it takes a while to post on here, understand I’m probably just trying to get my affairs in order. And keep watching therideronline, you just might see a story I wrote.

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