At the end of the day, we English majors sometimes need help from fellow comrades – Especially from recent grads. The following is a list all current English majors should look into:
Build your resume while still in school. Understandably, there may be outside responsibilities which will be difficult to juggle. If you have the opportunity though, take it. Visit your college’s career services center for guidance and more information. Equally, do your own research using indeed.com, ED2010.com, and bookjobs.com. The aforementioned website post remote internships frequently.
Involve yourself with the university newspaper. Join a writer’s club. Actively search websites looking for content writers. Become a part of the writing movement and add your voice to the waves.
Understand your audience and cater to their needs without extinguishing your own flare. Sending a cover letter graced with exclamation points and fluffy verbiage to an attorney’s office may not be the best idea. Work with what is given. Shape your writing accordingly.
The best way to improve your writing is by reading. To build your list, ask your friends and professors for recommendations. Stealthily take a peek at the book title the bearded gent at the coffee shop or the colorful miss sitting at the bus stop is reading. Take advantage of your local library and peruse the rows of works available. You may not be able finish all the books on your list: this is okay. Do not fret. The point is to engage you, the writer, with readings which will encourage your creativity.
If you are submitting your work to numerous sites, you will be rejected. It hurts. It happens. However, rejection enables the humble version of yourself to oversee your own projects and correct what you initially thought was mindblowing work. This is okay. Everything will be fine. Send an email to the editor and ask where you can improve. Go from there. Remember…
Develop your voice. Build your perspectives. Listen to your readers. And keep writing. In the wise words of John Keating played by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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this was some really really great advice! I’d just like to add that if you’re starting to try to get published, get familiar with submittable.com. it’s amazing, and the #1 writing resource you need
Thank you! I will check them out.