Being a Budding Journalist

"Learning is a part of growing, and growing is a part of life!" 

 

Learning has always been a significant part of my life. I have always been up to learn something new, something which would  increase my knowledge or expand my horizons. And journalism has been nothing less than a vast ocean of knowledge, creativity and experience.

My experience so far has been phenomenal. From learning how to design new things, how to express my opinion through words, writing different things to Indian history and geography. It is so diverse as a subject that it even gives us an opportunity to try our hands on different activities.

I remember choosing journalism as my career option, honestly just for the sake of doing event management. But now, after exploring it, I realized that in such a small time period, I came across so many career options that even I never thought of. 

You know it's very apt when people say that you should explore the world and your interests. That's how you'll finally get what path you want to take and which destination you want to reach one day. 

Like right now, I am feeling like I am not only on a crossroads, in fact like I am standing in a middle of a desert, there are no roads and i can actually go any which way I want. And no matter what, I will surely reach at a place where I would find my oasis. 

Now i do believe that whatever happens in life, happens for a reason.

A good reason at that!

Like how currently I am surely having the best time of my life. 

I am finally getting to express my views, that too through something which gives me immense pleasure and happiness.

I am writing.

I am being creative, designing things, drawing my thoughts and imagination on screen with ease.

I am communicating, which I never did before so easily. I am speaking on things freely despite of never ever being comfortable in speaking out in front of mass. 

All these have given birth to a new person, I think was inside of me but never emerged out.

And I am not exaggerating.

I don't think something else would have been a better career for me than this. It gives me freedom to express whatever and however I want - though not complete freedom - but still if I feel there is something we need to discuss and shed light upon, I can do it.

We, as journalists, are responsible for sharing information to people. We need to be the journals which makes them aware about what is happening around in the world. 

The most important thing, I have learnt to do this, is whatever you are saying, or spreading should be nothing but truth. What information you share is important but HOW you share it is more important because whatever you tell people, you don't know how it would affect the mass. 

It can be either positive, or negative.

And the effect remains positive is what we should aim for. 

As a budding journalist I know there are many lessons I would be learning along the way and I am sure I would try my best to adhere to all of them. 

I truly hope to transition from a bud to a beautiful flower in this context. 

-By MeeRa

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Becoming a writing freak.....

My First Novel

I remember being a bookwarm since childhood, when my school curriculum included Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte in 4th standard. That was the moment I built my interest in books and novels. After that day I must have read plenty of books, that I cannot even count on my fingertips. I never came to know when my love for reading changed into a passion for writing. 

Writing poems.

Stories.

Quotes.

Writing absolutely anything and everything!

Soon, writing my own novel was a bulletin on my wishlist. 

I was just looking for opportunities when I would be able to write it. And that opportunity came to me when Corona hit us like a shock wave. Truly I know, I might sound insensitive, but the break we got during this lockdown gave me enough time to finally start working on my dream. It might acted as a bane to the world - somewhere for me too - but it even was a boon to me atleast. 

Moreover, I refused to just sit idle at home, watching television and scrolling social media after I actually drained my little book shelf reading every single book present in it for atleast two times. 

So, soon I found myself working on the novel. I actually had a fair idea about what I want the story to be, so all I needed was to develop characters that would relate to the readers to a great extent. 

When I started writing initially, I thought that it would take me a millennium to come up with something worth reading, instead it actually didn't take me a while. Would it sound weird that when I wrote, it was as if my fingers would just work on the keyboard non-stop, I wouldn't even need to think what I want to happen next in the story. The idea was so clear in my mind.

Like a crystal clear picture that was saved in my memory. 

And it seemed I was describing that vision in clear-cut phrases and words without any roadblocks and issues. 

It was just so excited and exhilarated that writing came so naturally to me. As if it was in my blood. (Well it actually is, since my mom write stories and amazing shayaris 😜😜😄)

I knew I was always fond of writing when in any story competitions and writing sprees in school, I would be appreciated. But I never knew that I would be someday writing like all those amazing authors whose books I basically hogged on. 

And now after a hardwork of about 2-3 months, and spending my whole days stuck with the laptop typing like a lunatic. I am finally halfway through achieving my dream.

I wrote half of my novel and am looking forward to the moment when it will be finally released and people would be able to read it. I know they all might not like it, it can be a flop. But all that matters to me is I atleast tried. 

And I would try till the end of my time, to be able to become a author, who is not just well known but well LEARNT!

 

- By MeeRa   
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