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taleweaver-ramblings · 3 months

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If I ever get my hands on a time machine, the first thing I am going to do is find whichever individuals are responsible for the misconceptions that you have to be a journalist to be a good writer and that every writer likes journalism. And then I am going to shake those people so hard they each break at least one tooth. And I am not going to apologize for it.

#I hate those two ideas so much #I thought I'd shaken them by now #escaped everyone who kept shoving them at me #and then I turn around #and my dragon-kissed grad school class is spouting the same dragon-kissed bushwa #if I wanted to be a journalist #I would be a dragon-kissed journalist #but I DON'T #I wasted half my life thus far thinking my writing-career-options were 'be a full time novelist and be happy but make no money'#and 'be a journalist and be miserable and make just enough to live on'#it took until storming HIGH SCHOOL for anyone to tell me otherwise. until COLLEGE for me to discover just how many writing careers there ar #to be clear: I have the utmost respect for journalism as a career and for journalists as writers and investigators #the world would be a worse place without them #but that is not a path I want any part of #I would be a terrible (TERRIBLE) journalist #and I am filled with rage every time someone tries to shove me towards that career or that type of writing #I am aware that I'm basically throwing a temper tantrum #I apologize #but I am storming SICK OF IT and I still have SEVEN WEEKS of this DRAGON-KISSED BLACK-BURNT RUST-RIDDEN CLASS #why the black-burnt honey-buttered dragon-eaten pumpernickel did I think grad school was a good idea??????#taleweaver speaks #taleweaver rants #grad school

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