When I first started my Senior Project, all I wanted was to achieve one goal I had had in mind since I started writing in 4th grade: to be published by the time I turned eighteen. I never expected that my goal would drive me this far. I did not expect to get qualified for a Distinguished Project. When I got the letter in the mail over Winter Break, the whole news was mind-boggling, not just to me but also to my parents. I did not know that something like journalism would be extremely successful as a Senior Project, but it was. Even though I learned that journalism isn’t exactly my thing during my project, I'm honestly pretty excited to work with it a bit more during this time. This extra time will really set my mind in stone on whether I am meant to be a fiction writer or a journalist.
To make my project Distinguished, I will write one more article. As simple as it sounds, it’s not really. This time, instead of publishing in the Chanticleer Courier, I am going to try to publish in a bigger company, The Greenville News. I know the Greenville News is much more than just a neighborhood magazine. Most likely, it will require a lot more to be published in it vs. a smaller publishing company such as the Courier, but that’s what I am going to enjoy about this. I love taking challenges. If I work alongside a bigger news company, then I will most likely learn many new things about journalism than I did by just publishing in the Courier. I’m sure one of the main subjects will be the publishing itself. If I talk with the Greenville News, I will most likely learn what it really takes to be published in a magazine, newspaper, etc., that will be read in every single country in the world.
Publishing in the Greenville News will most likely only stay in Greenville, but it will still give me a better perspective of what the journalism world is really about. It will most likely answer the question I still have to this day, since I first started my Senior Project: are all news articles true, or are some of them just made-up stories? This will be a great opportunity for me not only to grow as a writer but also to learn who I am really meant to be. It will also get my name out, so hopefully one day, I won’t be as anonymous as I am today.
Do I have the potential to become a famous writer, such as J.K. Rowling or C.S. Lewis? Maybe I do, but maybe I don’t. Even if I don’t, it doesn’t mean I didn’t try. While I may not be able to say, “Oh, hey, everyone, I had so many of my books turned into movies when I was young!” or “Did you hear this? My articles are so well-known that everyone knows my name now!” in the future, I can still say that, “While I may have never been as successful as you guys in writing, I still tried, didn’t I?”
And that is just as beautiful as the people who are famous writers.
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