Internship: Yes, No, Maybe so?
I had to stop working at DCP because of the distance and lack of funds, but I wonder whether I should return now that my financial situation is more stable. However, the books they produce are not exactly what I would want to work with in the future--but it would be experience nonetheless.
I just applied to to 3 internship programs that are closer to home (well, one is in Emeryville) and I really want something focused more in fiction or at least more literary. Anyone know of any? I applied to Avalon, Chronicle Books, and MacAdam/Cage Publishing. I went on a huge "need to get focused" fix and bought some classical books as well as an instructional creative writing booklet and a novel & short story writer's market catalog that helped me find these Bay Area publishers. There are a lot more than I thought, but the possibilities are limited because the majority require only a small staff. Let's hope one can make room for me.
Now that it is my last quarter I am really worried that I'm not prepared for the working world. I want to find a place in publishing, but I don't know how realistic that prospect is without more education. Hopefully, my cover letters will help me something and my resume will back up what I say.
Hic-cup. Hic-cup (for real).
I'm going to focus my two weeks of "break" on writing and reading. I'm really behind on the classics and I want to get ahead on short stories because I hear that my new creative writing professor is more demanding and structured than my past professors. And anyhow, I should be writing all the time to try to get better at it. If I can't be an editor, maybe I can be a fiction writer. If I can't be a writer, maybe I can be a copywriter or technical writer. And if all else fails, it may be back to the aprons, food, and hungry customers. Or just a desk job. Boo.
Otherwise life is pretty good. I had a Labor Day BBQ and pool party which I thought would be about ten people or so and ended up being more like 30 or 40 throughout the course of the day. Word of mouth is obviously stronger than Myspace evites. It wasn't hot, but it was hella fun and there was a lot of delicious food. Only odd thing of the day was a neighbor yelling down to the pool to tell us "douches to shut the fuck up because some people need to rest on the holidays! stupid assholes! shut up!" Some old Chinese dude kept screaming out his bedroom window at my friends and me and there were children at the pool too, so I went over to the unofficial mayor of our little community and asked him what he could do. He told me the old guy recently had a stroke and was paralyzed on half of his body--but honestly his mouth needed to be paralyzed. Some of my homies were screaming back threats and such and it was funny. We were playing water "football" and were, of course, loud but it was a holiday and early afternoon. He had no place and the mayor told us to have our fun without worry.
So everyone wish me luck with my internship applications, because rejection without a rejection letter sucks, and that I will write something others will enjoy reading.
I just applied to to 3 internship programs that are closer to home (well, one is in Emeryville) and I really want something focused more in fiction or at least more literary. Anyone know of any? I applied to Avalon, Chronicle Books, and MacAdam/Cage Publishing. I went on a huge "need to get focused" fix and bought some classical books as well as an instructional creative writing booklet and a novel & short story writer's market catalog that helped me find these Bay Area publishers. There are a lot more than I thought, but the possibilities are limited because the majority require only a small staff. Let's hope one can make room for me.
Now that it is my last quarter I am really worried that I'm not prepared for the working world. I want to find a place in publishing, but I don't know how realistic that prospect is without more education. Hopefully, my cover letters will help me something and my resume will back up what I say.
Hic-cup. Hic-cup (for real).
I'm going to focus my two weeks of "break" on writing and reading. I'm really behind on the classics and I want to get ahead on short stories because I hear that my new creative writing professor is more demanding and structured than my past professors. And anyhow, I should be writing all the time to try to get better at it. If I can't be an editor, maybe I can be a fiction writer. If I can't be a writer, maybe I can be a copywriter or technical writer. And if all else fails, it may be back to the aprons, food, and hungry customers. Or just a desk job. Boo.
Otherwise life is pretty good. I had a Labor Day BBQ and pool party which I thought would be about ten people or so and ended up being more like 30 or 40 throughout the course of the day. Word of mouth is obviously stronger than Myspace evites. It wasn't hot, but it was hella fun and there was a lot of delicious food. Only odd thing of the day was a neighbor yelling down to the pool to tell us "douches to shut the fuck up because some people need to rest on the holidays! stupid assholes! shut up!" Some old Chinese dude kept screaming out his bedroom window at my friends and me and there were children at the pool too, so I went over to the unofficial mayor of our little community and asked him what he could do. He told me the old guy recently had a stroke and was paralyzed on half of his body--but honestly his mouth needed to be paralyzed. Some of my homies were screaming back threats and such and it was funny. We were playing water "football" and were, of course, loud but it was a holiday and early afternoon. He had no place and the mayor told us to have our fun without worry.
So everyone wish me luck with my internship applications, because rejection without a rejection letter sucks, and that I will write something others will enjoy reading.