Class Reading:

This weeks chapter was about the structure and formatting of an article and how to format works of journalism.
This is can say is my sole reasoning for not particularly liking journalism. I took this class because I knew I didn't love that kind of structured writing- but I knew it would be challenging and I do want to become a better writer so here I am.

My dream in life is to write books. Granted you need to excel in writing and grammar and certainly punctuation (which I realize I need to work on), but I want to be able to write the way I want to write. I take a creative non-fiction writing class where people write one or two word sentences. Those students spend pages writing about anything and nothing and half the time it doesn't make sense- but its brilliant. I have learned so much as a writer from being in that class.

I like that freedom of writing how and what you want. I feel like journalism where it has to be so unbiased the majority of the time, and follow such stringest guidelines and rules, takes away from any sort of creativty of writing.

I completely respect journalists, I don't think that is an easy job by any means, and I commend those that do it and do it will. I however, do not think that it is the profession for me. I actually did like the reporting aspect but I feel like there is just so much red tape that goes along with that. There are so many things you can not do or say, and rules and regulations you must abide by and I feel like its just a very difficult field to get into alone let alone be successful.