Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Finally



So, I'm finally doing it. After obsessing, postponing and praying, I'm finally trying to do something to keep my journalism experience relevant despite my lack of employment in the field. I submitted my resume to an on-line magazine last month and have just now (I KNOW!) actually done something about it. I've started writing an article for them, and will query them by this end of this week. Although I know a query doesn't mean they'll accept my article, it's a start. And I've been putting that off for too long. Even though I'm working now, not writing is killing me as far as my chances for working in journalism in the future. I'm sure prospective employers will wonder (and rightfully so) why I haven't written anything or at least volunteered to write for the community paper. And those are valid questions that I can't explain without discussing my extreme bouts of self-pity and - gasp! - laziness. But with our departure date getting closer (we leave next February), I've got to get on the ball. Eight months seems like a long time, but it's not very much time for me to get some more recent writing clips. Thus, my attempt to break into this on-line freelance market. I won't say what site I'm going to query, but it's my style and I think it's the type of forum I will be able to work well with. The pay is practically non-existent, but that's not the point. It's a chance for me to start doing something that I love. Not that I don't enjoy dealing with temperamental captains who think they know it all and underhanded specialists who try to get me to do their work for them. That's what helps pay the bills. The writing? That will be just for me.

5 comments:

M-Dubb said...

You should write to Joe Grimm on Poynter. He'll point you int he right direction!

M-Dubb said...

ignore the typo...

C. Lewis Brown said...

Thanks hon! Done it. And no worries, typos are accepted here :)

Anonymous said...

Yeah, get on that thing. I'm not going to keep buying stuff for you to write for you not to use it.

C. Lewis Brown said...

Hm. Maybe you and a certain character are more alike than I thought .... fuss much? (JUST KIDDING!!!)