1. This is proof of how much attention I pay to form, and structure when it comes to any piece of writing I do. This is where I am now with my cover letter to a newsroom:
2. 9 paragraphs total, a lot of changes were made before I got to this point, but let me start by showing you where I am now by showing you exactly what I'm looking at whenever I look at this, which is just paragraphs 2-6:
3. I may, or may not go over all the changes it took to get through, and to this, but w these five paragraphs alone, I can already see a beginning, middle, and end.
The sentence in between the first, and last two is the middle. That's all I want, and need in between the initial address of my reader, and the thank you for reading the rest. However, there's one thing standing in my way, and that's paragraph 7.
Check it out w paragraph seven; 2-7:
4. Paragraph seven is the last thing you read before paragraph eight, and I guess I'm pairing the thank you for reading the rest w the paragraph before that starting w until then, making it eight paragraphs total.
Nine if we're splitting that last pair up, which again, we're not, but the point is before I make this anymore confusing for you, and myself is that I need to get rid of the seventh paragraph, bc w that we have three paragraphs after the third, which I wanted to be the middle, and in order for it to stay that way, it has to have the same number on both sides, which is two.
Plus I already said please in the last paragraph before that, so now you're just asking them for another thing, which should be a given anyways, after the confusing instructions you've given them to your least to most relevant samples.
Why are you even asking them to accept those things, after you've sounded this confident throughout? Hell yeah, they're gonna accept this cover letter, along w your references, which you still need to get.
Just close it out after those confusing instructions you give to your samples:
5. See w that change, we went from 9 to 8 paragraphs total, 7 if we're going by my idea of combining the final thank you for reading w the paragraph before then, which we are, so 7 total.
Then from 229 to 210 wds. Granted the changes I didn't tell you I made to paragraphs 5-6, which was basically cause I completely rewrote them altogether, I hope this piece showed you how my attention to overall form, and structure led to my informed decision to cut the eighth paragraph altogether.
Please lmk what you think my chances of getting hired are w this cover letter in the comments, and would you look at that now? W this additional conclusion, in addition to the final drafted example of my cover letter, I have nine parts total to this piece here, if you include every example of my cover letter, which got me to this conclusion.
I thought I could leave it out, but then I couldn't w all of what I said, or didn't say about the changes I made before that in the beginning of the third part, and w that said I just blew my own mind w this, so I can only imagine what you're thinking.
I mean I just went over all this to tell you how I made one change to a cover letter I haven't even sent yet. I should just send this to the company I wanted to submit the cover letter to. They'd just read it, and be like na, this is way more than we asked for.
He's an overachiever, and there aren't enough of those, get him outta here. Or send it under a fake name, like demetri. And then they'll be all like damn demetri, you just wanna watch the world burn, huh.
