"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight ... Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well."
—Ursula Le Guin
Le Guin mostly had in mind people who write fiction and poetry, not blog posts or newspaper articles. And yet her words still have meaning for me, a student journalist. I work without the benefit — or burden — of poetic license, but I have just as much respect for the power of words and stories.
Through my classes at Marquette University, real-world experience and study of great journalism, I have been honing my abilities as a reporter, writer, multimedia producer and, most of all, storyteller.
My goal is story-telling with a purpose. Check back here for some of those stories and watch as I get better at telling them.
—Ursula Le Guin
Le Guin mostly had in mind people who write fiction and poetry, not blog posts or newspaper articles. And yet her words still have meaning for me, a student journalist. I work without the benefit — or burden — of poetic license, but I have just as much respect for the power of words and stories.
Through my classes at Marquette University, real-world experience and study of great journalism, I have been honing my abilities as a reporter, writer, multimedia producer and, most of all, storyteller.
My goal is story-telling with a purpose. Check back here for some of those stories and watch as I get better at telling them.