Its cool that we got to dive into learning how journalism and the media works. I like being able to see what the career entails. I never knew how much proof editing and how good of a writer you actually have to be in order to be a journalist. I've also learned never to take such an intense online class again. This class was terribly hard for online. I am a much better observer and like to be in a class learning and seeing many examples and watching and learning from other people around me. It was such a bummer that I would try hard and do really good on something (at least I thought I did) to find out that my papers were terrible. It was hard to go from being so inexperienced to this new culture of writing and be expected to write like an actual journalist. I know thats what the class is, is a media journalism, but Im just saying it was hard to have to actually be a journalist and do everything a working journalist would do when really we have no actual real experience. I will have to admit some of it was fun, getting a taste of the kinds of things actual journalists do and its for sure something Id do for a career... if I was any good at it. which clearly I am not. haha.
In the blog i wrote for my introduction I said, "i hope writing finds me."
I see that this journalistic writing hasn't totally agreed with me but i think other kinds of writing would suit me well. I saw that in my journalistic writing i always, ALWAYS wanted to use adjectives and write things in cool and different ways, which don't fit with news stories apparently. I've always thought news stories did just that. I thought they made everything so detailed and full of explanation, I didnt realize that opinions get in the way so much in journalism. I didnt realize how important it was to keep certain things out of news stories too, and everything has to be so specific.So maybe if I got into writing my own creative writing stories and things like that... I would love it.
Maybe I will take a 'creative writing' class along my college career and see what adventure that takes me!
But for now I can say that I've enjoyed the experiences and learning about the whole new language of journalism.
Kaylee - Learning a new writing style isn't easy, that's for sure, and journalism takes lot of practice. Don't give up on writing, and I do hope you explore lots of different types of writing in your college career. I have found as I go through life that certain types of writing are great during specific times, but it changes all the time. Good luck in all your future endeavors!
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