I graduated with a Bachelor’s over a year ago. While networking is an obvious help to finding the perfect job, I was also given the advice to “start a blog!”… By everyone. Literally every advisor and professor I spoke with said blogging is a great start for any career in publishing. I’m sure looking back at the task after building a successful career and figuring out what blogging actually is, that advice sounds concrete and simple. However, I can say that while just starting out, that advice is troublesome as I have no idea how to blog successfully.
Sure, blogging has allowed me to vent about frustrating situations, get my opinion out there about certain circumstances, and to simply write whatever was on my mind. That being said… who actually wants to read that? There are plenty of people on the internet with more than enough opinions about certain circumstances. Why should mine matter more?
Not to mention, how is that actually supposed to make me stand out to prospective employers? Answer: it won’t. (But! Maybe they’ll like my writing style. Maybe they simply can’t fathom how their business could go on without me! However idyllic, that is highly unlikely…)
So I searched long and hard about what I want out of life. Some of what I found, I blogged about. Some I kept to myself because, again, who wants to read that? I can’t believe how simple my conclusion is, and why on earth I hadn’t thought of it before now.
I want to work in publishing. I want to help authors construct and improve their vision of reaching people’s minds and hearts. I want to be a book editor. So while I don’t have any professional experience with book editing yet, I DO have opinions on the books that are already out there. With that in mind, what else is there for me to do than to post book reviews?
Not only will this help me discover and fine-tune my process, maybe it will help me get discovered. It may have taken me a while to reach this epiphany, but I finally have a direction and a purpose for my blog. And I couldn’t be more excited!
As always, thanks for reading my thoughts. 🙂
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