Journalism is an excellent choice and I wish you the best in luck with it! I've actually wanted to be a journalist for the better part of my life, but Law won out in the last minute. :P You deserve a break, and if possible, I'd like to take one for a few months. Nonstop education really is a bummer. Co-op would be really, really great, so I certainly hope that an opportunity pops up! Awesome to hear that you continued writing! I was dreading the "I haven't had the time" response, mainly because your story captures a certain epic tone that cannot be replicated. Uncertainty with a story can be a really good driving force, so I hope that you get a whole lot more done. If you do, make sure to put up more excerpts!
Yeah I'm sure just the university degree should help me get something half decent even if it isn't in journalism. Looking forward to being done though. Thought about Post Grad stuff but decided I need the break. Too much studying! Just need to close the door on my initial education! Hopefully you can find a co-op or something, I know Goldenboko is doing one now and not only is it useful but it also pays awesome so there's that too. Although he is doing engineering which explains a lot xD I actually popped over to your page a few days ago to message you and then forgot. Yes, I have done some more writing! I added another three and a half thousand words before class consumed me again, but I have brainstormed two more scenes to add in earlier in the story to flesh it out a bit further as well. I've actually reached a point where I'm not too sure where to go next as my ending is all very undecided but I think I have a nice epilogue planned. Hoping to add another few thousand soon!
I envy your job! It sounds amazing (aside from unsteady hours, those could probably get annoying after a while). Chances are you'll find a good job after graduation, still. Having a degree can lend a bit of help in seeking 'higher level' lower level jobs, hopefully. I want to be done my education as fast as possible, but I doubt I'll have much freedom if I do get into law school (my hopeful destination, at the moment). Drowning in education doesn't sound very fun, but hopefully some sort of co-op or pre-articling opportunity will come up at that level, if anything like that even exists. :P Have you had any chance to brainstorm and/or write your story? I have almost all of mine mapped out but I've been absorbed in the freedom of no school for three weeks. I really want to write something tonight or tomorrow.
I work as an ambassador for my university, so I go out to local schools and deliver presentations, run career markets and expos and give tours of the campus. It's actually a really awesome and enjoyable job, but you haven't got steady hours and you can start work anywhere from 6am to 7pm and finish whenever. Still, I love doing it! The other day was just super busy all day and our team isn't large enough to cover that sort of all day event without everyone working a little bit harder. I would hate to be stuck in a minimum wage job but that might happen once I graduate :P
Real life always manages to get in the way, huh? At this point, I think that taking school in the summer beast out work by a small margin. Last summer I was working full-time, and I'm pretty sure that I lost my soul at that point. It was extremely depressing to go in and work 6/7 hours every day. I've never had an eleven hour shift, or anything close to that, but it honestly sounds like the worst thing ever. Here's hoping that you find free time to start writing soon! What is your work, by the way? I was doing soldering for a small company at minimum wage last year and I would much rather take a restaurant/retail job now.
I know I have a lot to work with, it's all a matter of digging in and doing the leg work. Or finger work, as it were. Unfortunately I have had little time for anything the past week or so thanks to work and such. I worked an eleven hour day the other day, never done that before and it damn hurt xD
I really, really love your synopsis dude. That sounds like a goldmine of situations, character development, and a fleshed out story. I'm not trying to be nice for the sake of being nice either, it actually sounds great! And of course, the underground city thing is what makes me most interested. How is the writing coming along, good sir?
Good to know everything is all planned out then! I look forward to seeing what you come up with, I'm quite excited now! As for a synopsis: Hawk and his partner Condor are Aurellian marksman, top snipers. After they're sent on a mission to gun down innocent civilians, both decide to leave the army and put violence in their pasts. Unfortunately for them, violence is never too far behind and they get caught up in the rebellion once more - this time, on the other side. Hawk is hesitant to step back into combat, but the arrival of his childhood sweetheart prompts him to fight to protect her. Could this reluctant soldier be the difference in a war he has no real interest in? Something like that. At one point the underground city falls under attack, then I have to try and figure out exactly how to resolve two different plot points. Something to keep working on for my fans!
It definitely is weird, but hey, we just have to soldier on. And yes, I agree that a detailed plan is the best way to go. I read this message about two days ago as well, so I promptly structured out my story, and I was definitely happy. As long as the story is open to bouts of improvisation, I think that it could work wonderfully. And awesome! A few excerpts and you have to start a new thread for the story, from start to finish. There's nothing that brings me more excitement than knowing that someone is going to up updating a long and engrossing story. Revive the writer's section Jiro! Also, out of curiosity, could you give me a bit of a synopsis? So I can froth at the mouth some more?
It's strange that being a writer is still very weird to people. I get people who are super excited by the idea of me writing and seem to think that I'm almost published or something, and other people who just give me weird looks and are just like "yeah whatever." It seems strange to people that I write creative stuff, despite the fact my degree is writing based (albeit not creative) and my minor is in creative writing. Idiots! xD But yeah, I can definitely understand why there's just that, I guess hesitance to mention it. I think making a detailed plan is the way to go. At least plans can be changed if inspiration hits. Relying on inspiration could make things disjointed. Planned works are structurally sound, generally, so it's a great frame to add to. I'll keep posting excerpts, once a week from now so I have time to write more too. Process of choosing an excerpt is making me realise that there are a lot of sections that need improving; I'm embarrassed to show them! xD
