Ella Veres' Article Archive

Article Archive

I chose the selections mostly at random from my much larger "body of works."
The articles were written both for print and broadcast. Some were assigned, some were pitched stories, some were assigned and not accepted, some were written and then not even pitched.
Looking back I admit to being puzzled by what it was that led me to put so much work into investigating topics while underpaid. Perhaps the wish to be professional to the utmost and the romantic pursue of truth. Perhaps I also felt useful.
It was a long way from my first article to my novel writing, but eventually I discovered the path leading from one to the other. At the beginning I wasn't aware of the arbitrariness of editing since it was often blamed on my poor english language skills at that moment or not being in the paper's style.
Now while I reread the original articles it made me realize that my writing was alway good. It was only that I didn't dare to write in my own voice, speak my own mind from the beginning.
I should say that the reshaping of the article archive carried out during the last week of May and the first week of June 1998, was a period of hallucinatory activity. Turning what had been my gray homepage into a colorful, inventive, and whimsically playful one, was an experience that consumed and exhilarated me.
A friend compared my response with what his father told him when getting out of the political prison back in communism: he was so color hungry after the grayness of jail, he needed color more than he needed sex.
Long live the internet.

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