UCF

OK I have to write a ten page short story for my creative writing class by the end of September and I have NO IDEA what or how to write it.

Any ideas?

Short stories always seem almost boring, until you realize it has some underlying message, I feel. I've never written like this before, I've always written news, or at least "nonfiction."

I also have to take the Grammar Proficiency Test on Tuesday. It's a test you have to take (and pass) as part of the requirements to get into the Journalism program at UCF. Right now I'm just Journalism Pending with an English Writing minor. So, I bought an English Grammar Workbook for Dummies to prepare for it and make sure I pass it, because if I don't get at least at 75% I have to take some remedial grammar class for an entire semester, which would also postpone my acceptance into the school.

School is going great though! I love UCF! I love my classes! I'm taking Journalism Ethics, Communications Law and Creative Writing for English Majors and Minors (part of the reason I declared my minor so soon). When you're a Journalism major you actually have to declare a minor that is outside of the School of Communication. I thought about Political Science or Computer Science but both were a bit more complicated than I intended when I looked into them more, and English Writing is general and related to what I want to do.
So, I will be applying for the Journalism program by October 1st in order to begin in the Spring. If I don't get in, I can reapply but I would only have my minor classes to take, because I'm already taking all of the journalism classes that a journalism pending student can take.

I am also going to go to a Central Florida Future meeting on Monday.
http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/home/generalinformation/
The Central Florida Future is the UCF newspaper, but it isn't produced on campus, it's actually run by an outside company. If I submit enough stories as a contributor, they will add me on as staff and then I'd get paid for my stories! I also joined a group called the Society of Professional Journalists. It's a national, or maybe international, organization and I think this is just a student chapter type of thing. They didn't say much at the first meeting, but there are a few workshops you can go to when you're a member and most of all there's a big internship/job fair just for students in the organization of tons of magazines and newspapers and other publications around Orlando and Florida that are there to hire us!

:-)