Okay, so I’m the kind of guy who submits 1,930 words when the quota is 1200. I expected that there would have to be a little trimming.
But as I was reading the online version of my latest article, posted this morning, I thought it peculiar that all the information about Princeton University Concerts, which I thought was to be the primary focus of the article, was cut!
Then, as I continued to read, I realized it all started turning up at the bottom of the page. So after the opening, the second half of the article appears first, then the content I imagined would be closer to the top, and then it just kind of ends stone cold. So much for all my careful craftsmanship.
In the final analysis, not all that much was actually cut. Some, but not as much as I anticipated. It just kind of turned out to be a topsy-turvy presentation of my article.
But I really can’t complain – as long as the check is cut right-side up. It looks like I got the cover story!
Read all about Marna Seltzer, director of Princeton University Concerts, and the return of PUC’s tent-pole chamber music series to Richardson Auditorium, in this week’s U.S. 1 newspaper.
The cover:
The article: