Second semester goals:
I brainstormed a lot of writing goals for this (using more sources, writing better leads, more varied topics, ect.), but pretty much everything seemed to come back to one theme: the type of stories I write. I definitely don’t think there’s anything wrong with what I write (why would I be writing at all if I did?), but I do tend to write things that aren’t directly relatable to Prospect students, and that creates a lot of smaller problems. I’m not sure how many Prospect-centric stories I’ll be able to produce, since Prospect is quite boring, but it’s probably a good idea for me to write at least a few stories that I can include students in.
Hopefully that’ll take care of my main problems, so the only other goal I have is to write nice stuff, which, quite frankly, I don’t feel is important or helpful in any way, but if I want my mom to let me continue writing in opinion, I think I have to. So, expect lots of super pointless and overly positive columns next semester! Because positivity is fun! Yay!
I guess this could be considered a writing goal as well, but I consider it more of a duty thing since it has a lot more to do with when I do stuff than what I do at this point. I want to start writing my rough drafts a day or two early and then doing my first round of revisions when the draft is technically due because my rough drafts are absolute messes at this point. If it was completely up to me, I’d be fine continuing with crap rough drafts since I do always pull it together, but I don’t want to put unnecessary stress on the rest of the paper because I have weird writing habits.
My second goal is to plan out my pages a lot better. I know I can do SO much better than the pages I’m producing, and the only reason it’s not happening is because opinion is being really unenthusiastic about page design. Instead of wasting time with filler pages next semester, I want to make sure all my pages look like they’re worth reading.
My final goal is to start doing my share online. Honestly, the only reason why I haven’t is because I’ve been really frustrated with the way my stories are treated (so far I’ve had one story get put up over a month after I actually wrote it, another published before I was finished writing it, and a third published with the wrong byline), but I’m not going to make things better by doing absolutely nothing. At the very least, it’ll be good practice for me to just write.
“If you arrived at a 3 o’clock meeting at 3 o’clock, you were late. Simply complying with the minimum daily requirement was inadequate.”
