Critics Swap

Back in June in the British newspaper, The Guardian, the arts and sports critics swapped work for a day to see what would happen—a dance critic on horse racing, visual arts critic on football, theater critic on darts and a rock critic on cricket; a rugby columnist on the opera, a tennis writer on the visual arts, golf writer on classical music, and so on...

Arts Critics on Sports… http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/17/1

Sports Writers on the Arts… http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/18/art.pop

Take a look at these. It's going to be a lot like this for most of us. Fish out of water. Foreign territory. We're not experts. We're not supposed to be! We're just thinkers, out and about, open to new ideas and ways of seeing.

This should take the pressure off. Writing is writing. Doesn't matter if it's sports you focus on, or arts you love. If you write, you can write about anything....

See you all tomorrow!