A cracking lecture today, one that really makes me happy that I’m doing Creative Writing, unlike English Literature which teaches you research skills; Creative Writing teaches you the skills you need to crack the Industry. Today, various people came in and told us about a whole load of competitions, volunteer placements and work experience placements. I’ll be mulling them over and deciding which ones are suitable for me before pursuing suitable opportunities for my own ambitions.
One that really caught my attention was the Bath Life Competition, ‘article about life in Bath’ which I shall certainly be entering. I already know what my article will focus on. I’m lucky enough to work for The William Herschel Museum. The Herschels were an incredibly interesting family and also Bath residents, but nevertheless very few people have heard of them, or the museum. Hopefully the article should be interesting enough for people to read, and if I win I’ll bring some much needed publicity to the museum as well. I’ve already written to Alison at the museum to ask her what she thinks, and with any luck I should have the article completed by the end of this month, ready to hand in. Am very much looking forward to it.
With regards to my article about ‘chuggers’, I took the first draft into my seminar today and got some very useful feedback, I’ll now do some tinkering, get some more feedback and send it off to Community Care magazine. I’m a little undecided as to whether to make it an opinion piece or an article. I phoned NSPCC and Cancer Research to ask for some quotes, facts and figures about street fundraising just in case. I really enjoyed phoning these massive charities and asking for all this information, I felt like a proper journalist and they were very helpful. All very interesting. I’m going to take all the time I need before sending this article off as I’m not working to a deadline and I want to get it right.
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