Sunday, April 24, 2005
Week Fourteen Posting
How has your writing changed since the beginning of the course?
I am more sensitive to the readers' needs and interests. I think that I can balance their needs and interests with mine, but, to tell the truth, the balance will be 99% Hui and 1% readers. I hope to develop my writing more in order to express 'unadulterated Hui'!
What have you learned in the course that you think will prove most useful?
First I want to thank Drew, Tara and Mr. Carroll. Your opinions and perspectives were very useful. I appreciate the feedback. I wanted more.
What questions remain unanswered for you?
Many! Most of my questions are about my own writing. Is it good? How? When? Are the idioms I use appropriate or strange-sounding. Can I write professionally? Can I be a journalist? The answers to these questions come slowly, don't they?
How can this course be improved or enhanced? (Be brutal.)
Brutal. Right! This course is not Writing for Digital Media Workshop. I liked what we did at the beginning. I think that Mr. Carroll advised us to continue on our own. He advised us to give and take feedback to each other. Hmmm. It is better to force the students together for a few weeks. After that, maybe, we can continue on our own. Writing practice is not a priority it seems. Of course, this is not a workshop.
Secondly, where can we sell the articles we write? I want to be a professional. I want to work in digital media. Mr. Carroll has experience at a newspaper in Japan. I want to know more about that. All the newspapers here have online versions. I want to know their names and email addresses. How about this for a final project: Getting something published is a guaranteed pass and getting paid for it is a high pass. There must be over 1000 media outlets to target. I want to know what the most popular style guides are for them. I do not care to make my own.
How to Blog is as far away from Writing for Digital Media as any writing workshop is. Overall, there is too much about politics and way too much about Blogging. Incidentally, I think 'searched for' is as good as 'googled'. Of course, if Writing for Digital Media means product placements (Google, Blackboard, Apple, etc...) then tell me where I can get paid!
I am more sensitive to the readers' needs and interests. I think that I can balance their needs and interests with mine, but, to tell the truth, the balance will be 99% Hui and 1% readers. I hope to develop my writing more in order to express 'unadulterated Hui'!
What have you learned in the course that you think will prove most useful?
First I want to thank Drew, Tara and Mr. Carroll. Your opinions and perspectives were very useful. I appreciate the feedback. I wanted more.
What questions remain unanswered for you?
Many! Most of my questions are about my own writing. Is it good? How? When? Are the idioms I use appropriate or strange-sounding. Can I write professionally? Can I be a journalist? The answers to these questions come slowly, don't they?
How can this course be improved or enhanced? (Be brutal.)
Brutal. Right! This course is not Writing for Digital Media Workshop. I liked what we did at the beginning. I think that Mr. Carroll advised us to continue on our own. He advised us to give and take feedback to each other. Hmmm. It is better to force the students together for a few weeks. After that, maybe, we can continue on our own. Writing practice is not a priority it seems. Of course, this is not a workshop.
Secondly, where can we sell the articles we write? I want to be a professional. I want to work in digital media. Mr. Carroll has experience at a newspaper in Japan. I want to know more about that. All the newspapers here have online versions. I want to know their names and email addresses. How about this for a final project: Getting something published is a guaranteed pass and getting paid for it is a high pass. There must be over 1000 media outlets to target. I want to know what the most popular style guides are for them. I do not care to make my own.
How to Blog is as far away from Writing for Digital Media as any writing workshop is. Overall, there is too much about politics and way too much about Blogging. Incidentally, I think 'searched for' is as good as 'googled'. Of course, if Writing for Digital Media means product placements (Google, Blackboard, Apple, etc...) then tell me where I can get paid!
