*jams to justin timberlake

[noelleno]

I really think I need a new prescription for my glasses. 8'| It's getting harder to focus on the screen to draw...









Meager offerings tonight SO WHAT I CAN'T HAVE THE MAGIC ALL THE TIME YOU KNOW.


I am all on top of shit right now. Not...all shit, but. I'm ahead/on top of my readings for 4/5 of my classes (no geography book yet), got some ideas for the group project AND possible feature writing. Not that I have to worry about that just yet, but...if I have to do a profile feature, I think I know who I want to cover. There's this woman related to the man who owns a gas station my dad frequents up where he works who was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant...and refused treatment until she had delivered. She's actually cancer-free now, so I think she'd have an interesting story to share, and I'd like to hear her side from it, since all I know of her is from what my dad's said.

I read a really compelling feature in my text about a woman undergoing brain surgery to clip a couple aneurisms and this...growth...on the base of her brain stem that had been scarring her brain and messing with arteries for 57 years and causing constant pain. The reporter must've been in the room for the operation for what he wrote. It was incredible. It's called Mrs. Kelly's Monster-- you can read it here. It's a two-article story, but it's a fast, gripping read.

The man doing the hiring for the student writer job contacted me and told me he'd get to my samples "when I have the chance", so I can almost get myself to stop obsessively checking my e-mail for correspondence. I'm still anxious and excited. I feel like I could do what they want, but because I've never done a writing job and my samples are only student work...I'm not sure. Hopefully it's enough. I want to get a foothold already!

I really want copy editing to be fun. I feel like it could be. Kind of. I mean, I'm not really sure how I'd do with legalities and libel, but that's why I'm learning. I glanced over one of the tests for an internship camp for copy editing (that virtually guarantees a job if completed; it's that prestigious), and it's...not something that's too far out of my range, except for the current events stuff. I have to start paying more attention if it's something I feel like pursuing.

Idk.

It's not uncommon to not know what you really want to do with yourself at 23, but it still feels like I should have a better path already set? Especially when I look around me and have friends/peers already making a bee line towards this or that.

I'm going to try to stop being so scared.

Comments

[thanoodles.livejournal.com]

You're organizing your thoughts and figuring them out, so that's a start! I believe in you, as always. *picks up

(Hello Chemin. *wiggles eyebrows at*)

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

OFF-LIMITS

[thanoodles.livejournal.com]

NEVER

[stutterbird.livejournal.com]

CHEMIN'S FACE COMPLETES MY LIFE

also i think you're doing really well, pookie. i believe in you, and i'm hoping for good things!

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Likewise boo

[blizzardseason]

-DEVOURS CHEMIN.-

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

SCREAMS

[sabbato.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling. I'm twenty three, and I'm not even sure what I want to do with myself. College wasn't for me, and now I am going back to school for the first time in three years for the Culinary profession.

But you have options! That story you want to cover sounds like it would be very interesting. I would read that. I love hearing uplifting stories like that. It must be so exciting to hear that she's cancer free.

♥ But you can do it Elle! I totally think you will do amazing things.

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Thanks Aaron. I hope culinary school does something for you! If not...ehh. We still got time and a crap economy to figure it out in. 8'|

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

hey elle

i'm in grad school and I still don't really know what I want to do

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm in a bigger boat than I thought...

[pockythoughts.livejournal.com]

And I'm three years out of grad school and still don't really know what I want to do.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. <3

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

I WILL NEVER FEEL AS SUCH AGAIN

[okura-chan.livejournal.com]

Your drawings are awesome~~

Good luck for everything. I'm not sure where I'm going in life and I'm going to be 20 in 2 weeks.

I'm sure you'll find your path. ♥

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

We got time

[theliel.livejournal.com]

meh. I didn't know what I wanted to do until i was 28 or so.
You've got time.
`course, the earlier you figure it out the more time you have to get where you want to be.

either way, tiny dragon is cute. I totally want my next pet to be a cuddle dragon

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true, but I know it's not shameful to not know for a while either. People changing all the time and all, etc.

Noodles makes the cutest dragons ever

[xlovelylightx.livejournal.com]

I know I want to write but choosing a profession to support me is going to be hard so we're on the same boat. ;P

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you write! I know a lot of jobs looking for writers rn. Mostly professional stuff for web and such...

[xlovelylightx.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Tell me more please. :) I want to write fiction, mostly novels so is there any profession in that field?

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Haha...no
not really 8'|

I mean you're going to have to do a lot of writing work that's not stories. Things for businesses/companies looking to fill brochures/info for websites and catalogs. Gotta put bread on the table until you get something published and all.

[xlovelylightx.livejournal.com]

I thought as much. I guess I could go into copy editing instead and read other people's stories... At university I found out that 18 people get hired to copy edit ONE story so I guess they'll be looking for lots of nit pickers.