Remember a while ago, I wrote a post on the burden of a young poet - and how all you want as an aspiring writer is to get published. I think I also said something about buying five copies if it happened?
Well, on Friday I bought two M&Gs, and I'll probably buy three more. Just to live up to what I said, because on Friday the 10th of September 2010 I was published for the first time in one of the best South African Newspapers: The Mail & Guardian (www.mg.co.za)
When that is said, I also want to share my "fame" with two good friends of mine, Rebecca Jackman and Gerhard Jacobs, who got published in the Cape Argus (another great Newspaper) last week (several times actually.) This is their first article, and the same day, for the afternoon edition, they scooped the front page covering a protest at a petrol station in the outskirts of Cape Town. I'm very proud of you, and it feels good to know that we're moving in the right direction, seeing that we've almost finished our Journalism course.
Oh, and how did it feel to read my name? Absolutely unexplainable.
When that is said, I also want to share my "fame" with two good friends of mine, Rebecca Jackman and Gerhard Jacobs, who got published in the Cape Argus (another great Newspaper) last week (several times actually.) This is their first article, and the same day, for the afternoon edition, they scooped the front page covering a protest at a petrol station in the outskirts of Cape Town. I'm very proud of you, and it feels good to know that we're moving in the right direction, seeing that we've almost finished our Journalism course.The poets. The journalists. No burden.
Over.
good job and congrats!
ReplyDeleteThank you John.. How's life your side? What is your side by the way??
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