Open-ended assignments can be bad medicine
I got an assignment, the thirteenth, from one of my European editors one
day. He wanted me to do a global review story. He had a fetish for round the
world pieces and baby, did I get screwed.
“Geographically, I'd like the
environmental piece to be as global as possible and cover the full gambit of
environmental issues (noise, air, water, energy saving initiatives etc),” began his assignment note. Never-say-no freelancer
that I was, I agreed.
