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Don't write a slapdash poor research article just out of necessity.... I say as I finish a slapdash article

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On Writing 500 Words
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Man... Going back to school is lame! I've gotta get up early, I have to use my Iphone as a wifi generator becuse my laptop thinks its too good for the school's wifi, and I won't get to see my family untill Thanksgiving. I WAS going to do another article on Grand Theft Auto about the fun little moments that happened trying to build a world and character from the sophomoric and anarchic chaos that is Rockstar's nilhilstic pitch black satire of California. A place where if the earthquake doesn't send it crumbling into the sea, the utter apathy and cynicism will rot it from the inside. With school and packing for college we could not play anymore before I had to leave to go back to college.

So I'm now faced with a classic college dilemma: How to turn a two sentence premise into a page of information. You laugh now , but you won't laugh so hard when YOU are one with a report due that you have no idea to write about!

Though I'm pretty low on the journilsic ladder, other online writers have dealt with the same problem as me. For example, There is a gaming website who wanted to have an edge on its competitors about a story that broke about a high profile game developer quitting Twitter after the launch of his latest game went south. To do this they published an article with the headline annocing this fact with the article's text being the hastily written italics "Details to follow."

That was the whole article. You see, they wanted so badly to be the outlet to break this news they got the shell of an acticle out and apparently planned to quickly put in an article after they had enough information to put it together. In the cut throat world of entertainment news, exclusivity moves mountians. It is as if every comment screaming "FIRST" became sentiant and directed a news room. "Simpsons did it first!" taunts the old meme, suggesting that once a work has been produced, no other works similar to it can be made, otherwise viewers can rejected it out of hand for being merely a retread.

But, quick! What's the first FPS ever made? Can't tell me can you? It's about refining an idea, not just being the first one off the press. More often than not, all that being first cements is your place as a triva answer. And that's not even saying what happened to the company's reputation among readers when it turned out that twitter rumor was a hoax.

So remember kids! Don't write a slapdash poor research article just out of necessity! I say as I finish a slapdash article for which I did no reseach at all ... Tootles!

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