http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2010/03/10/%e2%80%98soft%e2%80%99-features-can-be-harder-than-you-think/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2010/03/10/%e2%80%98soft%e2%80%99-features-can-be-harder-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-2838 Freelance Unbound Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:28:21 +0000 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/?p=3866#comment-2838 I feel your pain. Do you think this type of feature is harder to research than it was 10 years ago? I get the impression people are less forthcoming than they were – perhaps because they have become used to being able to control whatever they say online... I feel your pain. Do you think this type of feature is harder to research than it was 10 years ago? I get the impression people are less forthcoming than they were – perhaps because they have become used to being able to control whatever they say online…

]]> http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2010/03/10/%e2%80%98soft%e2%80%99-features-can-be-harder-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-2831 Stuart Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:45:45 +0000 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/?p=3866#comment-2831 I know this is belated, but I'm in trade feature hell. You are absolutely right that the more insignificant the sector or topic, the more up themselves the individuals you need to speak to are. At present I'm writing about the heady subject of trophies. You know, the sort of gaudy items that they hand out at the annual golf club dinner, or at various business awards ceremonies. However I think I'd find it easier to write an indepth expose of the upper reaches of Opus Dei given the run around I'm getting. Apparently it's catalogue time of year for this beacon of the UK economy, so nobody can speak. What nobody at all? It seems so. You really would think that this backwater of business would be grateful for the slightest interest shown on it, especially in a feature designed to tie in with its annual show - yes, there is one, and an awards ceremony too I don't doubt ("The trophy for best trophy goes to...) But these are obviously busy times in the light industrial estates and warehouse of the West Midlands, so I'll go away and sob gently into my 1979 Douglas Water Gala Day 5-a-side champs shield... I know this is belated, but I’m in trade feature hell. You are absolutely right that the more insignificant the sector or topic, the more up themselves the individuals you need to speak to are.
At present I’m writing about the heady subject of trophies. You know, the sort of gaudy items that they hand out at the annual golf club dinner, or at various business awards ceremonies. However I think I’d find it easier to write an indepth expose of the upper reaches of Opus Dei given the run around I’m getting.
Apparently it’s catalogue time of year for this beacon of the UK economy, so nobody can speak. What nobody at all? It seems so.
You really would think that this backwater of business would be grateful for the slightest interest shown on it, especially in a feature designed to tie in with its annual show – yes, there is one, and an awards ceremony too I don’t doubt (“The trophy for best trophy goes to…)
But these are obviously busy times in the light industrial estates and warehouse of the West Midlands, so I’ll go away and sob gently into my 1979 Douglas Water Gala Day 5-a-side champs shield…

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