I forget sometimes that the reason I first went into PR was because I had the idea stuck in my head that I was a half decent writer. I didn’t know what PR was, but I didn’t have time to train as a journalist and I wanted to write so I became a PR. Recently, I’ve been thinking about where that idea came from, after all, for me to think I was decent, I must have had an idea as to what I constituted decent. Good writing doesn’t get enough recognition in PR and just like any skill, it is best learned through observing those who do it better than we do.
so… my homage to those who do it much, much better than me.
at 5… from the end of Madame Bovary (originally in french but the translation is equally brilliant)
"Everyone must have adored her, he thought. Every man who saw her must certainly have coveted her. This made her the lovelier in his mind; and he conceived a furious desire for her that never stopped; it fed the flames of his despair, and it grew stronger and stronger because now it could never be satisfied."
at 4… from the beginning of Ha’nacker Mill by Hilaire Belloc (another ethnically french writer but this time writing in english)
“Sally has gone who was so kindly, sally has gone from from ha’nackermill, and the briar grows ever since then so blindly, and ever since then the clapper is still, and the sweeps have fallen from ha’nacker mill.”
at 3… from Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
"He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past."
at 2… the whole of Giles Coren’s rant about his missing “a” but in particular this paragraph
“Right,
Sorry to go on. Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose.
All the best
Giles”
at 1… difficult one this one but I’m going with St John the divine and his revelations, it’s a bit funereal but it’s bloody brilliant.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
I’d be interested to see what the rest of you think… jed?
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To say that I’ve neglected this blog over the last few months is bit like saying… [insert banal yet amusing witicism here].
I could very easily site the long hours at work, or that fact that I’m doing some more political stuff in my spare time as reasons for this but the truth is that I got bored. Well… perhaps boredom is wrong, the French have this word “ennui,” it means more than boredom, it’s boredom and apathy and lethargy and the general sucking of any kind of will right out of whichever poor b*stard gets it. The PR blogosphere just got so far removed from anything that affected my life that it started to feel like one of those interminable dinner parties with friends of a friend, the kind where if you had a gun you’d shoot yourself in the foot just to get invalided out.
Anyway, the blog got pointless so I stopped blogging until I could think of a point. And now I’ve thought of one.
It struck me that I’m now three (and a bit) years into what might be becoming at least a semi-decent career and, having made most of the mistakes possible during those three years, I could blog about how not to make them. So that’s what I’m going to do.
From now on, every post on this blog will be about one of two topics 1:how to get a good job in PR, 2:how to be a good junior PR person. I’m wiping my blogroll clean and splitting it into two lists – firstly, people aspirant PRs should be reading and secondly, a list of student / young PR people who I’d recommend to potential employers.
Obviously blogging and social media will remain a major theme so to kick off, I’m looking for single best student run blog I can find – Philip Young and Richard Bailey any thoughts?
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