Josey Internship Blogs

The second time I went to Writespace I had a little bit of an idea of what I was doing, so I was not quite so nervous. I started out by working through all of the workshops they have given and making sheets of the attendence, and other information people had filled out at these workshops. This led to up to creating an email list of who all wanted to recieve emails from Writespace, although it was tedious work it was pretty fun to do, and it mad me feel very proffesional while I did it. Doing this took up the whole time I was there, but I thought it was a very different perspective to see how much work goes into a simple mailing list, something we don't put much thought into, but actually takes quite a bit of effort for us to create. Doingn this was very interesting and I definitely got better at using the spreadsheets while I was working with them. Tedious work is something that people often do not enjoy doing, but now that I understand how important it can be to a business, and al...

I went to Writespace for the first time, very nervous because I was expecting to have an interview. Although I did have a short interview, it was not nearly as nerve-racking as I expected it to be. After that, I went straight to work doing whatever they needed me to do. This particular time I was typing up the schedule for the upcoming months, and also typing up stories about the Ally Theatre from Hurricane Harvey. Writespace seems like they do a lot of great work, especially with their workshops teaching classes from anything about technique to how to finish a story or a book. Just from the little bit of work I did there, I saw a lot into how much effort goes into putting on the workshops, getting sponsorships, and working with different partners. I saw all the work that went into organizing everything. I got to meet people who worked at Writespace even though it was a pretty small staff, but it seems like they have volunteers who are very helpful to their organization. I was not real...