Final Blog

I loved this semester and was every excited that I was able to write my column again. Before my column I had written mostly hard news stories. The change to opinion took a time for me to really become comfortable with, but I felt that once I was able to wrap my mind around it this semester, that I was able to keep a good balance of opinion and fact. The biggest thing that made opinion difficult for me was that this question of “who cares what I think” was always in that back of my mind as I wrote.

The first article I wrote this semester way by far my favorite, and I think my best article of all. The topic was one that I was very passionate about right then, and it just seemed to follow every easily was I wrote it. I think that (for an opinion article) when we feel strong emotions about your topic is when the best work comes out because the emotion comes through your writing and readers can then feel the same things through the words of the story.

I am still a little unsure of my plans for the future, but I know that writing will always play a role in my life somehow. I am hoping to finish writing my book over summer, and then I will begin looking for a publisher, and writing the second in the series. I also would like to try and get a couple articles published in magazines. At the moment I want to invest my time into finding a job, but once that happens, should I have the time, I would love to begin finding freelance jobs to write on the side.

Thanks everyone for making it such a great semester, I’ll miss you all!