A Dream Assignment

MichelleMc — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:00:00 +0000

As a new contributor, my travel piece has been published in the Winter 2005 article of 951 Magazine. This is my second piece for this magazine and it was truly a pleasure to work on, as the subject is one of my favorite topics: Weekend escapes in Southern California. The most challenging part of this assignment was the size constraints. Imagine trying to squeeze six gorgeous properties into 2000 words or less. Excruciating!

I grudgingly narrowed the focus of my writing down to three types of getaways: Beach, Mountains, and Desert (Coronado, Catalina, Palm Springs, Julian, Idyllwild and Pechanga). Could I have written about the Temecula Wine Country and Riverside’s Mission Inn? Oh, you betcha. And I would have loved to written about those destinations. But, c’mon people, you can only say so much in three pages! And if I had attempted to include them, there would not have been room to do justice to any of them.

Faces of 951

MichelleMc — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:07:14 +0000

Three pages of my photographs and reporting were featured in the fall issue of 951 Magazine Southwest edition. This article featured twenty “Faces of the Southwest” representing a cross section of interesting people living in the Temecula Valley.

For this piece, I interviewed and photographed 35 people, which was eventually whittled down to only 20. I was pleased with the overall look of the article, but I felt bad for those 15 people who took the time to meet with me and ended up on the cutting room floor. I want to assure you that the editing was out of my hands. I wish all 35 profiles could have been included!

I will be a regular contributor to the magazine, so watch for more of my work in upcoming issues.

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A Dream Assignment

Faces of 951