Journalism (Noun)

As I have said in my first post on this little blog of mine, I am a journalism major at Arizona State University. Have I always wanted to be a journalist? No. Have I ever really known what I wanted to do? No. I touched on my distraught-ness of this subject in another one of my posts (here) but I wanted to talk about it a little more.

This semester I'm enrolled in my first News Reporting and Writing class and it's honestly one of the first times I have ever, ever written a news story. I was pretty worried about writing it even though my professor gave us all of the information we need. Although, it turned out well! I received a 27 out of 30 on it, which rocks in my book.

But now the problem is that I have to write an article about softball. I know softball pretty well (I played for 9 years) but writing about a team and what they need to do this season is NOT the same as just writing about a game I watched and took notes on. Now I'm pretty worried. I need this gig; I need experience.

Journalism seems so easy, but then again it seems really hard. Especially when your experience includes only yearbook. What to do, what to do...

If anyone has any advice, it would be much appreciated!

xo, Coop.

(Photo taken on my iPhone via Instagram)