Navigating the Storm

In response to the suggestion of a second blog…

When I began here at CUNY, I was more than a bit hestitant about maintaining my own blog. Insecurities ran rampant. Would I be insightful enough? Would I be witty? Would I, could I, be funny? And this is to say nothing of having a permanent record of my thoughts and writings at the onset of my journalistic career. Where do I stand now? Well, I am still wrapping my head around a blog’s form, its limitations, and its benefits. I have enjoyed learning the tools–Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.–and believe that acquiring these additional skills will be beneficial as I try to build a career.

As for a second blog, I agree with a few of my classmates who have indicated that an additional blog shouldn’t have to be about our neighborhood beats. I understand the argument of having neighborhood blogs, including adding value to some of our Craft stories and creating a dialogue between us and the community we’re covering, but I think this is an opportunity to revel in the form’s flexibility. We are in the midst of acquiring a great number of skills–both editorial and technological–why not use them to cover and write about something that we are passionate about, an issue or topic that we don’t necessarily get to examine while bogged down in Craft and Legal and Ethical Issues assignments?

As somewhat of an entertainment junkie, I would probably like to write about television, the upcoming awards season, and expand upon my previous post on dance and dance criticism.