Puke
I just joined Twitter. I'm realizing that a lot of the writing I'd like to be doing involves publicizing businesses. Twitter is one of the more highly publicized forms of publicizing these days so despite my reluctance to join the bandwagon, I must!
It's kind of interesting so far. I tried connecting to some of the writers I have been taking advice from lately. My two favorites are Peter Bowerman and Angela Booth. I have already finished Bowerman's book: The Well-Fed Writer. It is a great resource for someone like me who isn't exactly sure where to start with the business of a freelance career. I have made many-a-highlight in it, and will (in true obsessive fashion) make notes on my highlights which will hopefully develop into a freelancing binder. I want to create my own resource for what I think I will need on hand as I begin my new journey!
I have also started following Angela Booth's blog, which is full of things that are useful and reassuring.
I found a job opening I really like but am holding myself back from applying for it. Why?
Minor issues. They are asking you to send your Twitter and Facebook pages. My facebook is pretty private, and I just started Twitter today. Probably doesn't help much. I'm honestly tempted to just send them my LJ under the pretext that it is good writing done in a non-professional context.
I think it's good writing anyway. I could probably go back and add some punctuation here and there, but honestly I've never been a fan of stopping mid thought to contemplate whether a semi-colon or colon is more appropriate. I always opt for the semi-colon. What is sexier and more sophisticated than a semi-colon?
Certainly no ampersand.
ANYWAY, I don't have 1-2 years experience, I worry I don't have enough ideas, I worry that I look like a poser for having just started Twitter today, despite the fact that I have been having a 2 week long discussion about the point of Twitter and if it is even worthwhile.
That question became irrelevant to me once I realized that Twitter is important to people I would enjoy becoming important to.
I also don't have a writer's resume. Just a resume. And not an extremely cohesive one, which makes me realize that it's ludicris to think that a potential employer should penalize me for not staying in an irrelevant job long enough to indicate dedication to a job that does nothing for me but pay the bills.
Is it so wrong to want to be invested in?
I love working! I want to be challenged. I want change. I want growth. While I know I am not getting what I want in my current position, how is it so easy for fear to swoop in and prevent me from taking action?
I'm to the point that one blog article references: the point of collecting rejections. Maybe it's time to throw caution to the wind - to be my true self in these resumes and cover letters, and forms of social media. Time to stop conforming to this faceless idea of corporate assimilation and shoot for that off chance that someone likes me...just the way I am.
It's kind of interesting so far. I tried connecting to some of the writers I have been taking advice from lately. My two favorites are Peter Bowerman and Angela Booth. I have already finished Bowerman's book: The Well-Fed Writer. It is a great resource for someone like me who isn't exactly sure where to start with the business of a freelance career. I have made many-a-highlight in it, and will (in true obsessive fashion) make notes on my highlights which will hopefully develop into a freelancing binder. I want to create my own resource for what I think I will need on hand as I begin my new journey!
I have also started following Angela Booth's blog, which is full of things that are useful and reassuring.
I found a job opening I really like but am holding myself back from applying for it. Why?
Minor issues. They are asking you to send your Twitter and Facebook pages. My facebook is pretty private, and I just started Twitter today. Probably doesn't help much. I'm honestly tempted to just send them my LJ under the pretext that it is good writing done in a non-professional context.
I think it's good writing anyway. I could probably go back and add some punctuation here and there, but honestly I've never been a fan of stopping mid thought to contemplate whether a semi-colon or colon is more appropriate. I always opt for the semi-colon. What is sexier and more sophisticated than a semi-colon?
Certainly no ampersand.
ANYWAY, I don't have 1-2 years experience, I worry I don't have enough ideas, I worry that I look like a poser for having just started Twitter today, despite the fact that I have been having a 2 week long discussion about the point of Twitter and if it is even worthwhile.
That question became irrelevant to me once I realized that Twitter is important to people I would enjoy becoming important to.
I also don't have a writer's resume. Just a resume. And not an extremely cohesive one, which makes me realize that it's ludicris to think that a potential employer should penalize me for not staying in an irrelevant job long enough to indicate dedication to a job that does nothing for me but pay the bills.
Is it so wrong to want to be invested in?
I love working! I want to be challenged. I want change. I want growth. While I know I am not getting what I want in my current position, how is it so easy for fear to swoop in and prevent me from taking action?
I'm to the point that one blog article references: the point of collecting rejections. Maybe it's time to throw caution to the wind - to be my true self in these resumes and cover letters, and forms of social media. Time to stop conforming to this faceless idea of corporate assimilation and shoot for that off chance that someone likes me...just the way I am.