What do you do with a BA in English?
Receive an email back from one of the magazines you applied to write for. In the reply, they ask for a sample article about… Amanda Bynes and her dog. Figure that it’s a test in research skills because Amanda Bynes is not someone that is written about very often, and certainly neither is her dog.
Write a really crappy editorial-ish sounding article and send it, knowing anyone that reads it will hate it. Because you hate it, yourself.
Hope that one day, someone will find your blog and say to you, “Hey! Why don’t you work for us?” And “us” will be either Sugar Publications, Gawker, or hell - even maybe Perez. And Perez will be like, “You ARE way better looking and witter. Maybe we should join forces.”
And you will reply, “I don’t know. That cape thing you wore to fashion week was kind of ugly. Maybe if you burn it, I’ll consider.”
And he will look at you and his head will explode because he had never, in his life, witnessed someone so right. So write.
well, if you don’t i hope someone else does. that cape is just bad news bears..
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