I find myself at the end of every week trying to find something to write about. It's not that I can't write, it's finding a topic that interesting enough to want to make people read it. I consider myself more of a creative writer than a journalist. In my opinion, journalists follow the news and everything political. Personally, I'm not into all of that because it's just not who I am. But then it made me question, how does that affect me as a writer? How will that influence my audience? Recently, it seems like it's only negatively affecting me because not being so involved, leaves me stuck more than not.

I realized this was an issue of mine before and I wanted to at least test the waters before crossing journalism off my list altogether. This semester I decided to take a journalism class, Foundations of Journalism. So far I have taken an interest in the class mostly due to the professor and the students. However, I realized that if it wasn't for the class, I wouldn't gravitate towards the type of information I would need to pursue journalism.

I asked myself, would that hinder me as a writer? Not necessarily. After some thinking, I realized my ability as a writer doesn't change. Sure, if politics was presented to me and I was asked to write my opinions on it, I could. But, it does set me back because that limits how far being a writer can really take me. Being a creative writer takes time to develop the audience who seeks your literary work. Through that take, I can develop my skills as a writer. I thought about how I could gain some interest in finding topics a journalist would write about�. I have to take steps to ask my friends what articles they would want to read on their Facebook timeline because their my audience and knowing what they would want to read can give me a place to start. I have to look at the type of articles that usually get a lot of attention and positive feedback and possibly help me gain another audience.

In order to be serious in pursing my career as a writer, I have to do it all. I have to try to get in anyway I can because it's competitive. Even if I don't make it there, I want to keep growing and learn how I can develop my abilities as a writer. I had to question myself so that I could push my skills further.