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About My Story on “The Sconset Haunted House”
Don’t just research your facts; research your whole story
This is about the story I wrote for SNAPSHOTS earlier in August titled “A Haunted House in Sconset.”
Earlier that month, I had spent a week on Nantucket Island and visited the famous Sconset Bluff Walk. While walking the bluff, we came upon an obviously historic house in what appears to be a dilapidated condition. Because I was taking pictures that day, I stopped and took several of the house.
Upon returning home, I decided to write a piece on “the haunted house.” I called it that based on its appearance. Because the article was for a photo essay, I did not search the internet for information on the house. I later learned I was wrong.
Five minutes of research educated me on what the “haunted house” was. Including that information in my article would have made my article much better.
A couple of days ago, after checking on the statistics for the story, I decided to put “Nantucket haunted house” into a search engine. Out came a…
