Who mentioned deadlines? By Ann Evans
Newsroom and Features office Coventry Telegraph at the Corporation Street premises When I worked as a feature writer at the Coventry Telegraph, there was always deadlines to meet. Very often there might only be a few hours to source an idea, interview, research, write it up and send it on to the sub editor to prepare it for the page. At times it was a mad rush, but when there's a deadline looming as every writer knows, you have to just knuckle down and get it written. With fiction it's usually a more relaxed (and civilised) way of writing, well normally. You have your pace that you like to write at and you stick to it. But all that's going to change for me over the next five weeks. I'll be writing 2,000 word chapters in real time, from idea to going live to schoolchildren in just two and a half days. It's all to do with Fiction Express , an online publisher who team up with primary schools, to offer fiction that the children can contribut...