#featurewriting — a longform non-fiction writing has helped me write in-depth topics with zeal, focusing on detail, and insightful analysis, mapping to understand the "who, what, when, and where" of crime. I'd build a document with all the information I can find to create news features, in-depth profiles, human interest angle of story, science, marketing, finance, animals, art and crafts that covers a single topic in detail. Feature writing enhanced me for more creativity in storytelling. My gratitude to Perry Solis (foreign editor of Manila Standard), and our former editor for the Daily Express who'd encourage me to write feature articles in my spare time during my stint as police reporter covering crime — interacting with the front line of law enforcement in the detective unit of policing team investigating crime in particular. Here's one of feature articles from my varied interest topics in newspapering, writing for The News Herald back then.
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