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As a Grad student at Fullsail University, I became a part of the ad-hoc writing staff, which is responsible for creating a web series that allowed me to generate an episode. I was not the creator of the web series, but enjoyed the opportunity to help bring someone else’s vision to life by adding my creativity to what I felt was already a great series. I’ve never written for anyone else or been able to build off of someone else’s material, but with this I could definitely see myself joining a writing staff for a sitcom. I believe that I would be a great writer for a sitcom like Blackish, which airs on ABC. This assignment taught me how to work with a team and take constructive criticism from others. Sometimes I can be sensitive about my work and at times I will not let others read it, but this gave me the chance to open up and see how others may view my work. I also enjoy the fact that we are able to communicate back and forth with each as a online class and tell each other how to better our writing. When writing sometimes, I tend to prattle on about things that don’t matter and I think it’s good as I write it, but being able to post it to the online chat, my classmate will give their honest constructive feedback which helps me as a writer. As stated earlier, I can definitely see myself doing this for a living. I plan to reach out to the career center and begin to take the steps necessary to find position pertaining to my craft. As of right now, I find little writing gigs online where I may write an article or two, but would like to write more for a series or TV sitcom. Writing for the episodic series that was given to the class to read, helped me to learn more about including tags, which I have never done before. I’ve been so used to writing scripts for movies so this class has definitely taken me out of my element, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope that I will get another chance to collaborate with my fellow classmates and graduates of the M.F.A. program because this was definitely an experience for me.