Wow, I can't believe it has been over two years since I last posted on here. So many things have changed (yet so many things have stayed the same as well). I am no longer at the newspaper but am now working at PetSmart. I know, retail, but I really love my job because I get to work with animals on a daily basis. Its amazing getting to know some of our regular customers and their dogs and be recognized by them all the time. One day, one of our regular dogs ran right up to me and the owner was like, he never does that with anyone.
I'm still writing, when I can find the time and inspiration. I really think the inspiration is the hardest to find at the moment. While I love my job, it leaves me very tired at the end of the day and my creative juices stop flowing. I've also gotten a few scathing reviews on one of my recent fanfiction updates, which has basically just buried my muse for that story. I mean, yes, I understand I'm going to get bad reviews, but I feel like these people are blasting things before even knowing where I am going with a certain plot point. Oh well, maybe one day I'll return to the story and finish it, but I don't think it will be as good as I originally thought it would be, mainly because I feel like just hurrying up and finished the story.
Anyway, it'll probably be another several months to a couple years before I update this again. Right now I'm just messing around with some old websites I made when I had regular access to Dreamweaver and had to fix a link to this blog.
Who knows, maybe I'll update tomorrow ... doubtful.
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
It's Finally Over ...
... school that is.
Yep, you're reading right. I have finally graduated college. I am now a proud University of Maryland alum. I'm still having trouble accepting the fact that come the end of August, I won't be heading back to campus for classes. I don't have a full-time job yet, but am looking everywhere I can. I am still interning at the Washington Blade and actually had a very exciting interview this afternoon. Once the story is available online, I will definitely post a link here.
Yep, you're reading right. I have finally graduated college. I am now a proud University of Maryland alum. I'm still having trouble accepting the fact that come the end of August, I won't be heading back to campus for classes. I don't have a full-time job yet, but am looking everywhere I can. I am still interning at the Washington Blade and actually had a very exciting interview this afternoon. Once the story is available online, I will definitely post a link here.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
An Update
Having such a great time at my internship. I'm writing a lot, had three bylines this week, plus the weekly calendar of events.
I'm glad I didn't give up on journalism. I was seriously considering it this past semester. I didn't think I could hack it as a real journalist, but it seems I can. I haven't gotten much feedback on my stories, some issues with the paper mean I've been having to work from home, but soon, when we get a new office, I will have more of a chance to meet with my editors about my stories but also get a chance to watch some of the behind the scenes, hopefully. I'd really like to be able to sit with our layout guy and watch him set up the paper. I took a layout class, but have never seen a real paper laid out.
On my personal writing front, I haven't done much. I found an old fanfiction I wrote, its Buffy and was started before the series ended, which tells you how old it is. Anyway, I was reading over it the other day and WOW did I suck back in the day, lol. Apparently I didn't understand the concept of tenses or not using a character's name in every single sentence. One problem that has nothing to do with my writing skills when I wrote it, I seem to have hated it so much, I deleted the file (or it just got lost in one of many computer changes). So now I am working on retyping it, making some changes and hopefully improving it along the way. I actually remember some of the ideas I had for it, so I think I might attempt to finish it. Of course, I'm saying this and I have almost 100 unfinished fanfics. I think my problem is when I start writing a story, even when I mean for it to be short, it always ends up being really long, almost uber length.
I wish I knew someone in creative writing who would read my stuff and give me some feedback. My friends read my stuff, and their opinions matter, but they're not professionals. They all like my work, but I don't know if they would tell me the truth if my work sucked. Oh well, once the new semester starts, I will be taking a creative writing class and will definitely be getting some constructive criticism. I just hope the professor at least sees potential in my writing.
I guess I should just stop dwelling on this. There's a reason why I'm in journalism and not a creative writing program. I'm more likely to find success in journalism than I would in creative writing. Also, there's not as much pressure of hoping people like my work. In journalism, I just need to keep my editor happy, if an article makes someone mad, and there are no errors in it, then I'm doing my job right.
Alrighty, well, I know my blog has now become kind of boring. I'll try to get an entertainment post in here every once in a while, maybe I'll be able to work a weekly entertainment themed post.
Anyway, if I do start posting weekly, there is one week I'll probably miss, the first week of August, because I will be on vaca in ATL visiting my best friend and her mom.
Keep cool!
OH! Btw, not long after I applied for the internship at DC Agenda, the paper was able to buy back the name Washington Blade.
Oh yea, and that's the internship I'm currently at. :0)
I'm glad I didn't give up on journalism. I was seriously considering it this past semester. I didn't think I could hack it as a real journalist, but it seems I can. I haven't gotten much feedback on my stories, some issues with the paper mean I've been having to work from home, but soon, when we get a new office, I will have more of a chance to meet with my editors about my stories but also get a chance to watch some of the behind the scenes, hopefully. I'd really like to be able to sit with our layout guy and watch him set up the paper. I took a layout class, but have never seen a real paper laid out.
On my personal writing front, I haven't done much. I found an old fanfiction I wrote, its Buffy and was started before the series ended, which tells you how old it is. Anyway, I was reading over it the other day and WOW did I suck back in the day, lol. Apparently I didn't understand the concept of tenses or not using a character's name in every single sentence. One problem that has nothing to do with my writing skills when I wrote it, I seem to have hated it so much, I deleted the file (or it just got lost in one of many computer changes). So now I am working on retyping it, making some changes and hopefully improving it along the way. I actually remember some of the ideas I had for it, so I think I might attempt to finish it. Of course, I'm saying this and I have almost 100 unfinished fanfics. I think my problem is when I start writing a story, even when I mean for it to be short, it always ends up being really long, almost uber length.
I wish I knew someone in creative writing who would read my stuff and give me some feedback. My friends read my stuff, and their opinions matter, but they're not professionals. They all like my work, but I don't know if they would tell me the truth if my work sucked. Oh well, once the new semester starts, I will be taking a creative writing class and will definitely be getting some constructive criticism. I just hope the professor at least sees potential in my writing.
I guess I should just stop dwelling on this. There's a reason why I'm in journalism and not a creative writing program. I'm more likely to find success in journalism than I would in creative writing. Also, there's not as much pressure of hoping people like my work. In journalism, I just need to keep my editor happy, if an article makes someone mad, and there are no errors in it, then I'm doing my job right.
Alrighty, well, I know my blog has now become kind of boring. I'll try to get an entertainment post in here every once in a while, maybe I'll be able to work a weekly entertainment themed post.
Anyway, if I do start posting weekly, there is one week I'll probably miss, the first week of August, because I will be on vaca in ATL visiting my best friend and her mom.
Keep cool!
OH! Btw, not long after I applied for the internship at DC Agenda, the paper was able to buy back the name Washington Blade.
Oh yea, and that's the internship I'm currently at. :0)
Friday, June 18, 2010
A Change of Pace
Wow, I am actually updating this blog. I don't think its been quite as long as the last time, but still, a couple months.
I am busy this summer. I have an amazing internship that I've dreamed about having since freshman year of college. I attended Capital Pride, with my internship, and it was an awesome experience. I actually got to WALK in the parade. I also worked our booth at the street festival, but I have done that before at Atlanta Pride for Curve. It was still fun especially since it did not involve taking money from people. I also got to see Chely Wright perform. I've been a huge fan of hers ever since "Single White Female" was released and seeing her perform it live was nothing short of spectacular. I have two bylines already and will have plenty more before the summer is over.
Now, this blog use to be all about entertainment (and myself if I remembered to update) but I think I'm going to change things up a little bit. This blog will now be about two different things.
1. My internship this summer
and
2. My writing
Now, some of you may be thinking that the two are the same thing, but I don't mean my journalistic writing. No. I mean my creative writing. I have a shorty story that I wrote back in high school and am working on a novel length project that I started the summer after I graduated high school. I also have several other projects and will be taking a creative writing class in the fall.
I probably will still post an occasional entertainment entry, just because I love following entertainment. But maybe with these new subjects, I'll be more likely to update on a more regular basis.
Thanks for sticking with me!
PS
Check out the amazing dance crew, The Beat Freaks, as well as LXD and other dancers, in Justin Bieber's new music video, Somebody to Love.
I am busy this summer. I have an amazing internship that I've dreamed about having since freshman year of college. I attended Capital Pride, with my internship, and it was an awesome experience. I actually got to WALK in the parade. I also worked our booth at the street festival, but I have done that before at Atlanta Pride for Curve. It was still fun especially since it did not involve taking money from people. I also got to see Chely Wright perform. I've been a huge fan of hers ever since "Single White Female" was released and seeing her perform it live was nothing short of spectacular. I have two bylines already and will have plenty more before the summer is over.
Now, this blog use to be all about entertainment (and myself if I remembered to update) but I think I'm going to change things up a little bit. This blog will now be about two different things.
1. My internship this summer
and
2. My writing
Now, some of you may be thinking that the two are the same thing, but I don't mean my journalistic writing. No. I mean my creative writing. I have a shorty story that I wrote back in high school and am working on a novel length project that I started the summer after I graduated high school. I also have several other projects and will be taking a creative writing class in the fall.
I probably will still post an occasional entertainment entry, just because I love following entertainment. But maybe with these new subjects, I'll be more likely to update on a more regular basis.
Thanks for sticking with me!
PS
Check out the amazing dance crew, The Beat Freaks, as well as LXD and other dancers, in Justin Bieber's new music video, Somebody to Love.
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