[NON BLOG] Autopsies of Writings Past
Jan. 17th, 2005 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldLast Friday, I was looking over photocopies of articles that I'd written for The Cadre, UPEI's student newspaper, back in 1998. My mother had kindly photocopied them so I could add them to my resume, soon to be better than ever.
Reading over them, I was surprised how good they were. I suppose that I'd assumed, in the years after I'd abandoned my status as reporter, that the articles weren't good--that they were badly-written or poorly-sourced or something. None of those fears were true, though. One article in particular--an op-ed on the Nisga'a home rule agreement--is something that would fit in nicely with my current content. I was good.
I wish that I had stuck with it. Unfortunately, mildly competitive office politics caused me to opt out. It didn't help that, barely more than a year after I'd begun taking Zoloft, I was still a basket case incapable of handling much social contact with others.
Even so. The articles that I do have will fit nicely onto my resume. Just as importantly, these articles--and my current writings here on this weblog--demonstrate that I have what it takes to become a writer.
Even so. If only I'd been capable of keeping my position with The Cadre.
Reading over them, I was surprised how good they were. I suppose that I'd assumed, in the years after I'd abandoned my status as reporter, that the articles weren't good--that they were badly-written or poorly-sourced or something. None of those fears were true, though. One article in particular--an op-ed on the Nisga'a home rule agreement--is something that would fit in nicely with my current content. I was good.
I wish that I had stuck with it. Unfortunately, mildly competitive office politics caused me to opt out. It didn't help that, barely more than a year after I'd begun taking Zoloft, I was still a basket case incapable of handling much social contact with others.
Even so. The articles that I do have will fit nicely onto my resume. Just as importantly, these articles--and my current writings here on this weblog--demonstrate that I have what it takes to become a writer.
Even so. If only I'd been capable of keeping my position with The Cadre.
