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My first class of the semester at NYU’s graduate school of journalism was last week. As I described the students’ first assignment — just 500 words on an underreported (hopefully human rights or social justice) story within an issue they care about — I heard myself reassuring them not to worry. “This will be fun!” I said.
I meant that. But after class, I realized how odd that must have sounded.
Just now I caught the tail end of an NPR interview with a writer. She was talking about the anguish of writing. She may have used the word “torture.”
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