Ever since I can
remember I've wanted to work for a fashion magazine. I've wanted to be a PA for
Meryl Streep and run errands Anne Hathaway style. I've wanted to work in an
office that had windows for walls looking down on a thriving city. I've wanted
to be the one that brought everything together at the last minute like Ugly Betty. But most of all I've always
wanted to do something I love. Write.
When I was 14 I was
asked what job I wanted to do when I was older -my reply "I want to be
Ugly Betty! I want to work at a fashion magazine." Then I was asked what
aspects of the magazine I wanted to work on and this opened up a whole other
world I'd never thought of before. For me I didn't know what I wanted to do for
this magazine I just knew I wanted to work for it. Get the coffee - that's
fine. Be a photographer - I'd love to. Write a features article - That's it! So
I was told to start a blog. The only problem was I had no idea how to start a
blog or what to focus on. I didn't even know if anyone would read a 14 year
old's blog.
I decided it was
worth a try anyway and so I started a fashion blog. I was talking about brands
I had never heard of before at the time so I'm sure you can imagine how
insightful the posts were. Which meant blog number 1 never had a chance and was
soon abandoned.
A few years later I
decided I wanted to try again. This time I started a "coming of age"
blog talking about my day to day life but in short even I couldn't bear to read it. So the dream of writing a blog seemed
to be over. I had no idea how to do it and couldn't seem to find a topic I
could really talk about. It seemed to be a lost cause and all hopes of writing
in a magazine had gone.
So why start
another one I hear you ask? Well, I feel that I have finally found my topic and
now that I am 18 and have a DSLR camera I feel that I have the means necessary
to uphold a blog. Before I couldn't bear to re-read my writing because I had
barely any experience writing (this was pre GCSE's and A level's). I hadn't
encountered the joy that is coursework or been met by the prospect of the
infamous blog post assignment. To be quite honest I hadn't really experienced
much at the age of 14.
It wasn't until I
went to college that I really found what I was passionate about. I met a whole
lot of new friends who introduced me to new music, places and outlooks I'd
never thought of before. College also
seemed to mature me - after being thrown into an environment that's completely
different to school I no longer had time for petty arguments or idle gossip - I
was focused on trying to find out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
Just before the end of my As year the college I go to had an English lecturer
from Lincoln university visit us to tell us a little about the English degree
the university offered - but mostly about his career. I didn't expect to be so
inspired or motivated by a lecturer but he told us about his job as a
journalist. He seemed to be so passionate about what he did that he reminded me
of how much I had wanted to do the same job when I was younger. Although
somewhere down the line I'd got a little lost (with influence from some family
members, pressures of grades and self-doubt) I still wanted to be a writer for
a fashion magazine. I may have convinced myself that I wanted to be a chartered
surveyor (what, you don't have a clue what one of those is? No, me either)
ultimately I still wanted to be Ugly Betty.
And so that is why
I am attempting yet another blog. With a few helpful tips from the lecturer and
a topic I can write about for hours there's nothing to say this blog can't be a
hit. It will be filled with fashion rants,
lookbooks, makeup, diy's, decor ideas, recipes and general thoughts - a cluster
more commonly known as a life style blog. So I hope you like it and find
something that peaks your interest.
