On further review

I submitted my biking in Tulare County article yesterday after doing the final edit. It's much better than I imagined it to be. When you're writing something like that, reading and rereading and rereading, you lose your objectivity. It wasn't bad at all. I covered what was called for in the assignment--even if the assignment was rather vague, as usual--and I did a good job of it. I could have talked to more non-experts, but I'd have just gotten fluffy quotes about how fun it is to ride a bike. Who cares? That's not adding anything. Ah, well. My editor did ask for that, but she doesn't always know what makes good copy. I've been doing this longer than she has.