But You Don't Really Care For Music, Do Ya?
Alas, now comes the time where we start counting down the days to go back to work instead of the days of vacation. Two days left, and I can honestly say I look forward to this the least out of anything I've ever (not) looked forward to in my life. (By the way, I know that last sentence was full of all sorts of tense issues and such, leave me alone.) As Adrien said in the comment she left yesterday, going back sucks. I fully expect that, so maybe it won't be completely horrible.
So I was sitting here thinking about writing this blog, and it got me thinking how much I really love writing. Whether it be this silly thing, an essay, or a story of some sort, I love it. I thought I had written about this in a previous blog but a quick search revealed nothing so I'm going to go ahead and delve into that now. A few weeks back, I read a book called Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield. Rob is a writer for Rolling Stone and it's a story basically breaking down old mixtapes that he's found and he's talking about his wife and how she died and all this... anyways, it just really caught me how cool it would be to be a writer for a magazine or something like Rolling Stone. He described it in the book (not a direct quote here, just from memory) as basically listening to music, going to concerts, and hanging out with rock stars every day. How awesome would that be?
In the same way, for someone like me, how awesome would it be to write for a video game magazine? Go to the office, play video games all day long, and then write about the video games that you've played all day. Right on. Same goes with reviewing movies. I just think that, for me, it would be the perfect combination of work and pleasure. Sure, there's the argument that, in the case of the video game reviewer, you start playing all these games and you can't really do it for fun anymore. But I don't believe that. Sure, it would be a drag to play the bad ones that come along, but the really good ones that you would play all the time anyways are still going to be good. They might even be better because you've played a bunch of crappy games.
This all goes into the fact that I would really like to go back to school for writing of some sort. Whether it's just Creative Writing, English, Journalism, or whatever else, I would just love to do that. I can definitely see now that when I was in college before, I was not ready for the challenge at all. I was in way over my head, but now I realize that and I know I could do better. I would also like to delve into screenwriting, short stories, and other fiction. I just feel like I have all of this stuff built up into my crazy little brain and I really want to let it out. This blog is just one of the ways I can do that, but it's obviously not something that's really meant to satisfy my desire to write. It's just something to hold me over, I guess.
The thing is, I don't know the first thing about writing a screenplay, for instance. I know a little bit about how to write for journalism and mass communication, but I so badly want to know more. It's really frustrating because going back to school doesn't work for me right now. Also, Tiffany is really close to graduating and our first priority is getting her through that. (This also becomes complicated because some of her credits are now 10 years old, and she heard something a while back about how credits expire after a while--if anyone knows anything about this please let me know.) It's just time to make some changes in life and start working towards something. I don't feel like I've accomplished much in my own education and I just feel like I'm lacking in that department (let the jokes about me being unedjubokated begin).
Anyways, thanks for reading, comment, and I'll most likely see you shortly.
-Ryan J. Schwimmer
So I was sitting here thinking about writing this blog, and it got me thinking how much I really love writing. Whether it be this silly thing, an essay, or a story of some sort, I love it. I thought I had written about this in a previous blog but a quick search revealed nothing so I'm going to go ahead and delve into that now. A few weeks back, I read a book called Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield. Rob is a writer for Rolling Stone and it's a story basically breaking down old mixtapes that he's found and he's talking about his wife and how she died and all this... anyways, it just really caught me how cool it would be to be a writer for a magazine or something like Rolling Stone. He described it in the book (not a direct quote here, just from memory) as basically listening to music, going to concerts, and hanging out with rock stars every day. How awesome would that be?
In the same way, for someone like me, how awesome would it be to write for a video game magazine? Go to the office, play video games all day long, and then write about the video games that you've played all day. Right on. Same goes with reviewing movies. I just think that, for me, it would be the perfect combination of work and pleasure. Sure, there's the argument that, in the case of the video game reviewer, you start playing all these games and you can't really do it for fun anymore. But I don't believe that. Sure, it would be a drag to play the bad ones that come along, but the really good ones that you would play all the time anyways are still going to be good. They might even be better because you've played a bunch of crappy games.
This all goes into the fact that I would really like to go back to school for writing of some sort. Whether it's just Creative Writing, English, Journalism, or whatever else, I would just love to do that. I can definitely see now that when I was in college before, I was not ready for the challenge at all. I was in way over my head, but now I realize that and I know I could do better. I would also like to delve into screenwriting, short stories, and other fiction. I just feel like I have all of this stuff built up into my crazy little brain and I really want to let it out. This blog is just one of the ways I can do that, but it's obviously not something that's really meant to satisfy my desire to write. It's just something to hold me over, I guess.
The thing is, I don't know the first thing about writing a screenplay, for instance. I know a little bit about how to write for journalism and mass communication, but I so badly want to know more. It's really frustrating because going back to school doesn't work for me right now. Also, Tiffany is really close to graduating and our first priority is getting her through that. (This also becomes complicated because some of her credits are now 10 years old, and she heard something a while back about how credits expire after a while--if anyone knows anything about this please let me know.) It's just time to make some changes in life and start working towards something. I don't feel like I've accomplished much in my own education and I just feel like I'm lacking in that department (let the jokes about me being unedjubokated begin).
Anyways, thanks for reading, comment, and I'll most likely see you shortly.
-Ryan J. Schwimmer
I think you going back to school would be a good idea. Can't hurt right. But you have the talent to write stuff without that degree....all of your friends would agree to that and we aren't blowing smoke up your ass.
The degree or what not might help get you into the industry. Not sure how you'd get into testing videogames, but you could always email some of those guys that do and ask them how they got into it. I'm confident you'll figure out where you need to be and what you want to do. Just remember, you still have time to do whatever you want. No one said you couldn't write part time either. Heck, write for the daily oklahoman, you could only make that paper better.
Credits expiring....eh...maybe some might....I would think something like a biochemistry or something might expire due to great advances in the field. But, I doubt a lot of them expire.