Tuesday, April 24, 2007

on opportunities unwasted (confessions of an editorial intern)

I’ve been reminiscing a lot about the internship I had last spring, at Zondervan. It was the chance I dreamed about as an underclassman: a gorgeous section in my résumé, the perfect bridge between the life of a student and the life of an editor.

And then, you know the story. Some time in February, I discovered that I’d gotten my vocational message upside-down, and I wasn’t supposed to edit, but to write. This wasn’t because the internship was bad. It was, in fact, quite the opposite: one of the best things I did at Calvin. I still finished the internship, learning all I could from the inside of a major publishing house. (How could that hurt a hopeful writer?)

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Friday, April 13, 2007

in search of daily breath

So, I’m losing patience. Who knew it took so long to get over pneumonia? I was hoping it was just like a Super-Cold: give it a week or two and it will be gone. But pneumonia is a whole different ballgame. Energy and ambition seem like myths of the past--I’m certainly not doing much lately! My writing computer has been off for far too long, which brings all kinds of fears: any writing talent I ever had will dry up, I’ll forget the gist of my plot, I’ll turn into a lazy slacker who watches movies and knits all day . . . eek!

I’ve been pretty out-of-it for over a month now--using up those wonderful extra weeks that I added to my writing plan. Rats! I had really hoped I could sail through, get done early. 

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