#34 - Descriptive Lead - Feature Lead Practice

 

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I’m back with one more feature lead practice! This time, I wrote a descriptive lead. A descriptive lead describes a scene, person, or subject. Check out my lead below!


Factsheet Paragraph:
Thomas J. Serle works for Parker Bros. Circus, which is in town this week. Performances are scheduled at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. every day through Sunday, beginning today. Serle, who maintains a home in Fort Lauderdale, is a laborer who helps care for the animals at the circus, including 10 elephants. During a conversation with a reporter, he said: "Some people look on work with a circus as a glamorous job. It ain't. But I been doing it all my life, and it's too late for me to change. I'll be 60 next year. I was born into it. Both my folks were circus people. I started out as an acrobat until I fell and busted a leg. It never healed quite right, so they offered me this job, and I took it. What else could I do? There's all kinds of myths about circuses, like about these elephants here. Some people say they're afraid of mice, but that's crazy. When we pen the elephants up for the winter there's always mice that get in their hay, and it don't bother them none. The elephants never try to run away or stomp them or anything. They share the same cages all winter. And then some people say elephants got a good memory. Hell, some of the ones we got are so dumb they can't remember a simple trick from one year to the next."

Lead:
Thomas J. Serle is tired of the incorrect myths that spread about elephants. People believe all sorts of wild claims about them, but Serle knows they aren’t true. He works with them daily, and has for his entire life. Serle is a laborer with Parker Bros. Circus, and knows the truths that contradict popular myths about his circus animals.


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References
Graphic made in Canva
Factsheet paragraph sourced from Reporting for the Media