I Still Havn't Found What I'm Looking For
Alright, now that I have the previous issue dealt with, it's time for the other things going on with me.
When I said I'm leaving behind all of my online duties and normal stops (namely, Collo and any other part of News I was involved in), that had little relation to the romantic distress I was undergoing. I'm leaving that all behind for a separate reason.
In the past week, I've mentioned to my guidance counselor that I'm not really interested in going to college in a very casual way, not one of 'em I'm-just-expressing-my-teenage-angst ways. Sometimes afterwords, she mentioned this to my Modern America Through the Media teacher. He's a cool guy. All young still, studied movies and media in college, and now teaching it in high school with that completely down to earth, cool with the students attitude, and not stuck up and elitist like your average teacher. And he likes me, which makes him all the more awesome.
Anyway, once he heard this, he kept me after class for a talk. He asked me what I wanted to work as. I told him a writer, or a similar job where I'm my own boss, everything is according to my schedule (to some degree), and I don't have to worry about any guidelines. He nodded with acceptance, and continued to explain and ask me how much of this business I know. By the end of our talk, he got it pretty clear that I need to have my talents well developed to even have a chance in the business, and even then it's an extremely difficult thing to do. And unless I have some sort of degree to back me up, the odds of being published are painfully slim to none. I left the class with this in mind, and came to the conclusion that I should really start writing more, and asking people to critique my work. As such, I left EW, and I left News. They are only distractions, always have been and always will be. If I want to get anything done, I'll have to forget about them.
So, yesterday I took another visit to my GC to get information about post-high school options besides college. College is a good choice, but it isn't the only choice. So, she suggested a few things to me, one of which was co-op colleges. Spending three years of learning (in my own special style, of course) and then go through two years of work in the writing field doesn't sound like a bad deal, especially when you consider that it opens the doorway into the business and lets me make connections to useful people.
Now, my college philosophy has completely changed. I'm no longer aiming for no college, but for co-op (though probably I will still take off a year or so between HS and college). The only two my GC knew of are North Eastern in Boston and Drexel down in Philly (which also happens to be the college my mom attended. Go figure). Today I got this sheet with information about a Drexel scholarship contest, which requires a ten page max script with three scenes minimum, and offers a $5000 scholarship for 1st place winner. Pretty nice, I think. I'll be looking for other scholarships too, of course, and will start doing my best to develop my skills as a writer.
So, for the next while I'll be posting a bunch of poems, short stories, scripts, outlines, loglines, plots, characters-- anything literary that comes to mind, and I would like you all to give me your opinions, if you can. And be honest, brutally honest. I wanna to see blood>:o
When I said I'm leaving behind all of my online duties and normal stops (namely, Collo and any other part of News I was involved in), that had little relation to the romantic distress I was undergoing. I'm leaving that all behind for a separate reason.
In the past week, I've mentioned to my guidance counselor that I'm not really interested in going to college in a very casual way, not one of 'em I'm-just-expressing-my-teenage-angst ways. Sometimes afterwords, she mentioned this to my Modern America Through the Media teacher. He's a cool guy. All young still, studied movies and media in college, and now teaching it in high school with that completely down to earth, cool with the students attitude, and not stuck up and elitist like your average teacher. And he likes me, which makes him all the more awesome.
Anyway, once he heard this, he kept me after class for a talk. He asked me what I wanted to work as. I told him a writer, or a similar job where I'm my own boss, everything is according to my schedule (to some degree), and I don't have to worry about any guidelines. He nodded with acceptance, and continued to explain and ask me how much of this business I know. By the end of our talk, he got it pretty clear that I need to have my talents well developed to even have a chance in the business, and even then it's an extremely difficult thing to do. And unless I have some sort of degree to back me up, the odds of being published are painfully slim to none. I left the class with this in mind, and came to the conclusion that I should really start writing more, and asking people to critique my work. As such, I left EW, and I left News. They are only distractions, always have been and always will be. If I want to get anything done, I'll have to forget about them.
So, yesterday I took another visit to my GC to get information about post-high school options besides college. College is a good choice, but it isn't the only choice. So, she suggested a few things to me, one of which was co-op colleges. Spending three years of learning (in my own special style, of course) and then go through two years of work in the writing field doesn't sound like a bad deal, especially when you consider that it opens the doorway into the business and lets me make connections to useful people.
Now, my college philosophy has completely changed. I'm no longer aiming for no college, but for co-op (though probably I will still take off a year or so between HS and college). The only two my GC knew of are North Eastern in Boston and Drexel down in Philly (which also happens to be the college my mom attended. Go figure). Today I got this sheet with information about a Drexel scholarship contest, which requires a ten page max script with three scenes minimum, and offers a $5000 scholarship for 1st place winner. Pretty nice, I think. I'll be looking for other scholarships too, of course, and will start doing my best to develop my skills as a writer.
So, for the next while I'll be posting a bunch of poems, short stories, scripts, outlines, loglines, plots, characters-- anything literary that comes to mind, and I would like you all to give me your opinions, if you can. And be honest, brutally honest. I wanna to see blood>:o