When I read Cathy Kightlinger's little bio on the Indy Star website, I thought it was going to be interesting to read columns about all the latest fundraisers and special events that are happening in Indianapolis.
Like my last post, I will again express how little I'm enjoying these short little blurbs. To me they don't feel like columns. I don't want just information. I want quotes and feeling and description and insight and with all of that the information will be there.
Kightlinger's recent column is about how 400 people watched the Oscars together as a fundraiser for United Way. There was a '20s theme that had a lot of people all dressed up and looking fabulous and while I want that kind of information, I want to know a lot more.
It was only halfway into the article that I began to be interested in what was being read. It wasn't until the end of the column when I found a fun quote. I was once told that quotes shouldn't be better said any other way. If they can, then you should just paraphrase.
I'm sure it's hard to make it to all these big events but I think there needs to be a change to these "columns." Columns are what I love to read and write and so I just expect more life in them.
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