Lessons in Writing and Life
By EILEEN LEE WERBITSKY | Apr. 7, 2011My first article for The Spectrum was published Oct. 6, 1978. It was a review of a band that played at Clark Gym and bared so little resemblance to the original type-written copy I had submitted that I double-checked it line-by-line to see if someone else had covered the same concert. I was almost embarrassed to walk into The Spectrum office the next day, but my student editors took my grammar and writing style?or lack thereof?in stride and handed another assignment to me, then another, and slowly, very slowly, my copy began to bleed less ink. As a reporter for The Prodigal Sun, I was appalled at the disco craze inexplicably sweeping the world at the time, was less interested in new wave acts like Blondie and Devo, and kept my focus on heavy rock music in all its illustrious forms: fusion, southern, metal, progressive.
