This journal has had over 900 visitors in three months. Nine hundred plus people have amde the effort to look at these entries and not one comment. Interesting, but it doesn't concern me as this journal is really designed for me to vent, to release some of the internal pressures I have inflicted upon myself and now, I am please to say, to blow my own trumpet.
Travel writing and photojournalism has become my focus. After all this time talking about writing, I really didn't have any idea as to what genre I would choose, however, the idea of combining my love of travelling, writing and photography was just too strong and has emerged the winner. To make it even better, the Department of Veteran's Affairs is paying for my Diploma Journalism & Media majoring in Freelance travel writing and photography. I have been ready to start since well before Xmas but the first units of the course have yet to arrive.
Yesterday I applied to a terrific travel site on the web called Boots 'N All Travel, a site that caters to the individual and independent traveller with all the information a traveller would need. A great deal of this information comes from travel writers and several interns that Boots 'N All recruit each year. My application was for an internship as a writer and I duly sent in my application by e-mail as they close on 16 January. Boots 'N All is located in the States and so I considered the likelihood of them being inundated with applications, then they have to sift through them and sort out those they were interested in and so on. If I was going to get a reply it was expected around 20 January if then.
Boots 'N All was the last thing on my mind when I logged onto the computer this morning and when I saw a reply from them I assumed it would be the
"Thanks for your application and please accept this as your official receipt. We will be in touch soon." I opened it to find that they had already read my application and that they wanted me on board!!! So within sixteen hours, which is about the time difference between us, I had become an intern travel writer for one of the largest travel information sites on the web. Over twelve hours later I am still blown away with the significance of this, the opportunities it will now present and the confidence it has given me. I don't know how I will thank them, in fact I don't know how TO thank them, so I will strive to produce the best work possible as my way of repaying them.
Can't wait to get started.