-: The great thing about being a writer
is you can come from anywhere.
You know, I know a lot of the journalists
who, you know, who do what I do now.
Where they work in the PR field.
I was a philosophy major.
And, you know, I took one journalism class.
And became a newspaper humor columnist.
Basically, I think the more important thing
is that you learn how to do research.
You learn how to develop ideas.
And you learn how to flush those out.
And make those easy to understand.
Of course, it helps to have a good grasp
of the English language.
And grammar and punctuation, so a couple of,
you know, writing classes and creative writing classes
wouldn't go amiss.
But I think anything in the humanities
is really going to help you.
Philosophy, English, sociology, psychology.
Read every day.
And write every day.
Find authors who you wanna write like them.
And read everything that they've got.
And then whenever you're writing anything.
Now I say this all the time to people.
If you wanna be a better writer,
practice one technique and do it all the time.
When you're writing emails and texts to people.
Practice that one technique.
If you're writing reports for work.
Practice that technique.
If you're doing papers in class.
Practice that technique.
But everything you write should be deliberate
and should focus on that one technique you want to learn.
And then when it becomes a habit,
then when you're doing, what I call
your own special private writing time.
It's easy to do.
It's not something you want to practice
when you write an hour a day.
Or an hour a week.
It's automatic because it's happening all the time.
Start a blog.
Start your own blog.
It doesn't have to be for somebody else.
If you've got a blog that you contribute to regularly
and you share that and people can see it,
and you put that on your resume.
You can even turn that into a way
to do some influence marketing.
Or maybe you want to be a travel writer.
Or maybe you want to have companies send you things
to do reviews of their products or their services.
That suddenly becomes a job.
And I know people who that's how they make their living.
And so you become your own entrepreneur.
Even at 19 or 20, building this blog.
And building this publishing company.
Then you've created your own internship.