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Write On! Pursuing My College and Career Goals
Simultaneously |
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Lisa Hardman
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Defying the
early spring snow storms, a plethora of robins have
settled in my neighborhood. Perched on housetops, their
prominent red paunches herald spring's arrival just as
predictably as the blooming of daffodils. While other
birds fight over feeders on gray overcast days, robins
are out pounding the pavement in spite of the heavy wet
snowflakes covering recently emerging lawns. The robins
wait and listen, heads cocked in characteristic fashion,
prepared and poised to pull the next wriggling worm from
its soggy bed.
Like robins, I'm an opportunist, too especially when it
comes to maximizing my college experience and using what
I'm learning in a practical, immediate way. As an
English major who wants to become a published writer,
I'm beginning to see how agreeably my college and career
Goals intertwine. Even though I'm only into my second
semester of college, I have already found several ways
to make the most out of what I'm learning in the
classroom and simultaneously turn them into
opportunities to fuel my writing career.
First of all, I've discovered that the English
department at my community college offers specialized
writing credentials. I've already begun to use my
elective credits towards earning credentials in fiction,
nonfiction and poetry. I might as well have a writing
class to look forward to every semester while I'm
grinding out those general education classes. And since
it's going to be quite awhile before I'm taking
upper-division English courses, anything I can do now to
hone and perfect my writing skills along the way can
only benefit me in the long run.
The projects and assignments in two of my classes,
Publishing Your Writing and Creative Nonfiction, have
all been relevant and practical to an aspiring writer.
As the final project for my publishing class, I had to
put together a mock book proposal and submit manuscripts
or query letters to 14 different publications over the
course of the semester. Although putting together the
40-page book proposal was labor intensive and nearly as
painful as childbirth, the experience stretched my
writing muscles and pushed me to do something that was
exceptionally difficult. I also learned the necessary
skills of analyzing publications and potential audiences
as well as putting together professional and appealing
cover and query letters. The hard work and instruction
pAid off when one of my articles was accepted for
publication and I actually received payment for it!
In my Creative Nonfiction class, I'm currently working
on three different types of personal essays and will
submit one of them for publication at the end of the
course. Every week is spent with a group of 15 other
writers critiquing and work-shopping each others pieces.
The feedback from my peers has been invaluable and has
provided a built-in writing group. And believe it or
not, I'm actually grateful for the challenging but
indispensable process of revision. I've come a long way
even in just two semesters, I'm getting a little bit
braver and actually look forward to sharing my work with
other writers.
And of course, writing a bi-monthly column for Fast Web
has been the frosting on the cake. What better way could
there be to find out if writing for publication is right
for me? The invaluable skills of learning to work with a
Web editor, meeting deadlines, and mining incidents from
my educational experiences has provided me with 18
occasions to write for a particular audience and receive
reader feedback. It has also opened my eyes to the
burgeoning possibilities available in Web publishing.
By the time I complete my bachelor's degree, I hope to
have many publishing credentials under my belt. In the
meantime, I'm going to start digging, knowing that
writing is a worm-by-worm performance. |
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