Feature Writing Part 2

Welcome back guys to this weeks blog! 

In this weeks blog post we will be discussing what a descriptive lead is. We are going to be practicing more about feature writings and how to do leads.

Since we are talking about leads in this one we will be discussing descriptive leads and what they are. A descriptive lead starts by describing either a person, place, or things and is meant to set the setting for the story, and paints the picture to its readers.

Below I will be creating my own lead based off of the fact sheet.

Fact Sheet:

“ Thomas J. Serle works for Parker Bros. Circus, which is in town this week. Performances are scheduled at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. every day through Sunday, beginning today. Serle, who maintains a home in Fort Lauderdale, is a laborer who helps care for the animals at the circus, including 10 elephants. During a conversation with a reporter, he said: "Some people look on work with a circus as a glamorous job. It ain't. But I been doing it all my life, and it's too late for me to change. I'll be 60 next year. I was born into it. Both my folks were circus people. I started out as an acrobat until I fell and busted a leg. It never healed quite right, so they offered me this job, and I took it. What else could I do? There's all kinds of myths about circuses, like about these elephants here. Some people say they're afraid of mice, but that's crazy. When we pen the elephants up for the winter there's always mice that get in their hay, and it don't bother them none. The elephants never try to run away or stomp them or anything. They share the same cages all winter. And then some people say elephants got a good memory. Hell, some of the ones we got are so dumb they can't remember a simple trick from one year to the next.”

Lead:

Thomas J. Serle is man who’s done his fair share of hard work for many years working in a false system. Lies have been spread about his deeply loved workplace but he has set the record straight, the assumptions are false. He knows the rights and wrongs from his workplace Parker Bros. Circus as it’s what he knows best.

That will sum up this weeks blog about leads, stay tuned for the next blog which we will discuss the last lead . Thank you guys!