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| From | <nonstoppop@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Freelance writing gigs |
| Date | Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:05:26 -0500 |
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> I sometimes wish I'd taken this path, although I
> wasn't sure it was the path for me when I was
> in my 20s -- I did work at a small newspaper
> (one of the Scripps-Howard papers in Orange
> County, CA), and used to talk to the people
> in Editorial who were all pretty miserable as I
> recall (I worked as a courier between the
> satellite offices and the main offices), and I
> think that probably had something to do with
> me switching from a Journalism major to (gulp!)
> a Creative Writing major in college...
I feel your pain, Bryan...possibly moreso, because I DIDN'T switch from being a journalism major! When I was in college, the only internship I could get was one with RockFlash, a magazine which turned out to have the worst local reputation of all those dealing in the print medium...except I didn't know that at the time. As a result, though, I couldn't get arrested with any other local publications when I told them that the sum total of my journalism experience was working at RockFlash. And I once I got out of college, I couldn't afford to take an unpaid intership because I had bills to pay, so, well, that was kind of the closing of that window, I guess. I still do the freelance work, and I maintain the probable pipe dream that someday I might be able to obtain a full-time job that involves writing...but it ain't happened yet...
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