Success and Failure as a Writer

Success as a writer means putting your thoughts and ideas on paper without holding back. It means being able to express yourself and having the courage to expose it to others to read. Success is having the ability to identify your writing with your person and staying true to you and not what others want to read. It means putting yourself out there in hopes that you can reach out to at least one person, and not reach out to the money behind the cover. Writing successfully means writing with passion, writing for identity, and writing for the love of doing it.

Failure as a writer is more of a difficult thing for me to reflect on. I believe that the only way you can truly fail as a writer is by not writing what you want to write. The second you abide by someone else’s guidelines, I feel as if though the writing with passion is lost, the writing for identity is never met, and the love of doing it fades. It’s hard to say that following someone else’s guidelines is failure because evidently there are usually more than often “rules” we must abide by. However, one of the things a great writer should be able to do is follow these “rules” and still be able to find a connection with him.

Magazine Commentaries

As I was flipping through the travel magazines, I came across and article titled The New Kid. I wondered, "What could an article titled The New Kid be doing in a travel magazine?" As I read it, I realized it had nothing to do with a new kid. The article interestingly enough was about Elle's impact in fashion in the world. I liked that the article had an interesting title that grasped the readers attention. It certainly grasped mine.

On the other hand, there was a history article in the travel magazine that caught my attention. I didn't think it had anything to do with the magazine "theme" yet because it was kind of off topic, it made me want to read it even more.

Ezine Commentaries

As I was browsing at ezinearticles.com, an article titled A Teen’s Guide to Making Money, stood out to me the most because I found it interesting that financial help is still being employed at an early stage. I think it is a good idea for an article because these are the kinds of things that you would expect teenagers to not really read about, yet it is still published somewhere.
To continue, there was an article on religion that just completely caught my attention. You would think that religion would be something you wouldn’t want to comment on publicly, just for the sake of saving the criticism and controversy, but on the other hand this article talked freely about God and Sex(hence the title of the article).

My Experience in Writing and Journalism

My experience in writing and journalism does not go beyond a college classroom. I, like many other students, have only taken the appropriate english classes, (nothing out of the ordinary). Back in high school, however, I was a part of the journalism club, in which I learned to develop some of the computer skills needed to put together a newspaper. Through Communications 320 I would like to learn how to apply my writing skills towards writing for a magazine. Even though I am unsure as to what I would be an asset in when it comes to this class, my interests revolve around hosting on television, people magazine, movie reviews, and cosmetics.