Writing on the Run

I had my my final exam before spring break (SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!) yesterday. The first few pages were normal. Question one, answer this, question two, define that. You know the drill. Anyone who's been to college has seen it a thousand of those. But this test was just a touch different. Last page, almost done, I can finally breath.

Not quite.

I kinda knew it was coming (because the professor told us it was) but on that last page was two assignments. Yes assignments on a test. It doesn't get much better than that.

In the last hour of the test, I had to write two scripts. One TV commercial and one radio commercial. I was the first one done with the question and answer portion of the exam, which I think helped a lot, but I struggled with the script part. I mean, I got it done, and I was just the third to turn everything in, but I still felt too pressured to write well.

I'm not sure if this should worry me. In case you haven't noticed, writing is what I want to do for my career. And I'm pretty darn sure that during my career, I'm going to be required to write an article on a pretty tight schedule. Maybe there's a game that ends at 9 and I have to turn in my article by 10. I don't know. But I do know that in the most timely-pressured situation to write something a journalist would have to write, I almost caved.

Almost.

For now, I'm banking on the fact that I'm young and haven't been put in that situation much, and I'll just get better with time and experience. But it can't stay that way for long.

Oh, and by the way, I wrote this mediocre blog post in 30 minutes, right before an interview for an article I'm for The Sojourn. I changed "The Sojourn" to italics right as my interviewee walked up to my table. Just saying.