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Sep. 16th, 2010 10:41 pmI really think I need a new prescription for my glasses. 8'| It's getting harder to focus on the screen to draw...
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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.
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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.
