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It’s very much like the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing – show the audience (the NCTJ) what you’re capable of and get through to the next round.
I’m sure we would all rather hear what Bruno Tonioli has to say about our teeline, but we will settle for those who know what they’re looking for.
Whether 100wpm is your finishing post or if carrying on to 110wpm floats your boat, Friday 3rd December is firmly etched in our minds.
You know, along with revision for Law and PA, and the constant reminder of how hard it is to pass reporting.
Gulp.
Paul kept warming up our minds with 110wpm readings, which I actually kept up with for the most part, as I have gradually got over my stumbling block of panicking at a tricky outline..
“We want to place these gates at strategic..”
Strategic? What? Errrrmmm... *scribbles and tries to catch up, now about ten words behind*
Hmm.. I mark the paper and have 20 mistakes, but at least I got strategic right.
On the positive side, 100wpm sounds slow in comparison which is a brilliant feeling. If you hear a phrase, have a special at the ready and end up AHEAD of the speaker, it’s a party all round.
God bless the ‘car park’, ‘as a result’, ‘in particular’, ‘as soon as possible’ and ‘town centre’ outlines!
This brings me onto a new feature to the blog – Shorthand Spray-paint.
This could well be the only week it is featured, but judging by the amount of scrawl on Manchester’s pavements, who knows?
It’s much like the Shorthand Hair, but as the name suggests, this features the work of the fluorescent jacketed men masquerading as town planners.
They could all be 120wpm geniuses for all we know.. although they do hide it well.
This photo has been sent in by James Johnson.. enjoy! (I sound like a children’s TV presenter reading out the mailbag.. apologies)
Shorthand Spray Paint
Anyone else with shorthand hair or spray paint pictures, please let me know – if only so I don’t look like a graffiti artist who malts a lot.
I’m now off to scribble along to anything and everything I hear as practice for D-Day on Friday.
I just hope next week’s blog is one of elation rather than “OH MY GOD, I MUST HAVE FAILED, MY LIFE IS OVER – WHOEVER WROTE THAT TEXT NEEDS TO HAVE A WORD WITH THEMSELVES.”
As long as nobody plans to get ‘injured’ in ‘strategic’ places.. ‘of course’.. we should be ok.
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