August – the life lessons I learned outside class

Time to reflect on the life lessons I learned during the past four years as I worked towards my multimedia Journalism degree. Graduation will now be in the spring, in the hope that this event can be held in person. I have placed this reflective article on Medium, to include some of my photography, especially nature photography. The people at Medium have selected my article for further distribution, the first time this has happened. If I lived in the US, I would then be eligible for a payment every time someone read the curated work. As I don’t, I get nothing except a nice feeling that friends, including friends I have not met yet, are reading my article.

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Medium is free to join and non-intrusive, but you may only read three articles per month without paying. Generally, authors adorn the article with a stock photo or two, but I am working towards using only original photography. Today’s writing may be still the meat of the book, but it depends more than ever upon the presentation being attractive and appropriate.

My article also references the other skills I learned during my multimedia course. With a wide variety of media available online, potential readers may find your work in various formats and on various sites. Being able to blog, produce a film and produce a podcast, expands a writer’s options and potential audience.

The trophy for the National Student Media Awards Blog / Vlog of the Year arrived. This is made of Tipperary Crystal and I’ll be featuring it on my author’s website.

If you have time to keep reading and would like some tips on reducing paper use in your office or college, including home offices, here’s another recent Medium article, which I wrote in response to a request for information.

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Again, I took the photos myself. I asked my husband for his opinion and he suggested a photo of bulky waste – so I went for a walk and snapped a pile of cardboard boxes awaiting collection.


No college for me this year, but I am keeping up to date with the courses available, and friends will be keeping me informed. I’ve been busily catching up with promised book reviews, but I am not nearly finished climbing the TBR mountain (To Be Read) and new books keep arriving, however that happens. I think Fresh Fiction has something to do with it.

This month I am making The Prisoner In The Tower free, 4 – 7 September. The cover photo was taken on one of our visits to the Tower of London.

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