Beam's Blog of Writing and Other Things.

Over the past few days I've been touching up, updating, and generally rewriting my old resume. It desperately needed an update and a rewrite because of my major change, but I've been going back to it because my hope is to get an internship this summer. I have to do an extra year at school and, while my journalism program does require a six credit internship in order to graduate, I won't be able to take it until the semester of my graduation, and I'd like to have a little more experience than just that.

So I banged out a quick rough form of a resume, and spent a few hours tonight going over it with my dad. It went well, though now I'm mentally exhausted and have a mild headache to show for it.

We do, however, have a minor form of contention.

My dad is aware that I do creative writing; when I first started out he even checked out my profile on FF.net a few times. He hasn't done so recently to my knowledge, but he's always been very proud of my writing abilities. Even when I was young, a few poems and short stories I wrote got published, and he thinks that I should mention my creative writing on my resume.

Now, I'm not against mentioning the creative writing I wrote when I was younger that got published; I have no problem with that. But the thing is I think he's also referring to my fanfiction. He says it's a good mark for me, of how I'm able to start a story on my own, without much input or anything from anyone else (he's... basically unaware of my horrible backslide with my update schedule lately, though it's pretty justified with how things have been in my life up until this point over the last few months).

But, I dunno. I feel weird when it involves my fanfiction, mostly because it doesn't seem like a good thing to mention on a resume.

Am I overthinking this? I admit I might be. Exhaustion and headaches do that to me. At the very least I can mention the published creative writing stuff.