As a journalism major, most of the criteria that is drilled into us throughout two years of life-training is about newspapers: how to graph, how to edit, how to "hook", how to just plain write. With all this newspaper talk, it seems as if anyone with an inspiration towards a different road, toward magazines, seems to be stuck on a one lane highway with the only exit being graduation and eventually a newspaper.
That's personally how I feel, like we've got one choice and one destination. My goal is to launch myself not into newspaper, but magazines. I want to write elaborate stories that catch people's eyes and make them say "Wow..."
I hope to accomplish this through hard work and dedication throughout this course. It makes me fuzzy inside to know that I could have my foot in the door by the end of this semester. Like Prof. Fitzgerald said, once you get one editor to approve your work, the rest agree (or something along those lines).
Which made me think, "Hey, what a great way to get the ball rolling."
Speaking of rolling, I'm hoping to "roll" myself all the way up to Rolling Stones. I dream of the day that I can write a magnificent article, and have my photography on the cover and write by my paper voice. So who knows...