The First Step In Improvement Is Realizing You Suck

I've been juggling two internships while working on my last semester at UCO, and I'm mostly caught up on my list of things I need to do. At one of my internships I'm currently assisting Individual Artists of Oklahoma re-brand their overall mission and promote their big fundraising event in November called Red Dot. It's an unpaid position, but I'm really excited to be a part of an organization that is very involved within their community and will constantly be growing in the Oklahoma City area.

I'm typically the type of person who works great under pressure. Recently, my dilemma is I've been putting myself in these really stressful situations where I avoid a lot of my work and cram it right before the deadlines. As a result, the work I've been putting out is sub-par and clearly rushed.

I don't know why I do this to myself. I hate it.

My writing has been suffering a lot from this and it's been bothering me. It not only impacts my art internship, but also my e-commerce job when I write copy to promote products and when I write essays for my classes.

I was asked to write a short press release to promote a recent event for kids in the community to have an alternative fall break at an arts camp, so thinking that the task was a piece of cake, I put it off and wrote it in less than 15 minutes. I had a professional colleague that works in public relations revise my work and what she came out with put my copy to shame.


I realize she literally writes for a living and she even comforted me by saying "It took me YEARS to get AP style down."

I'm not entirely concerned because the great thing about internships is that they are meant for you to LEARN, but if I want to further my career in the communications field, I better get my shit together.

Here's a quick resource to refer to if you happen to get in a writing pinch.