8. How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?
5. If you used any quick writes as blog posts, how did they change from what you wrote by hand in class to what you published on your blog? In other words, how did you go from rough draft to final draft? Explain your revision/ rewriting process.
10.Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?
Having a blog this year really affected my writting, but in a good way. If we had only been assigend to write two blog post a month than my writing would not be where it is now. Last year in my english class we did freewrites which were basically the same as the quick writes we did this year, they were a little bit more open to what you could write about. For example the teacher said you can write about anything you want. The quick writes we did this year had more of a topic, if we didn't feel like writing about that topic our teacher was pretty easy about letting us write whatever but most people that i saw stuck to the topic. For me i think its just easier to come up with ideas about what to write when i have a prompt/ topic.Having a blog post due at the end of each week and starting out with 2 quick writes a week really got me into the habit of producing more work with less effort. Now i don't worry too much about having to write a blog post. Now that the lit.circle letters are 300 words it is so easy to write about whatever it is im writing about. I can easily come up with something to write with even if i don't always have enough time. Now i feel if im told to write and essay in class or any piece of writing, my thoughts come to me faster. I think that my perspective on writing has changed, i mean a little bit. Im not too fond of writing but know i know that i can write. I don't make too many mistakes in my writing anymore i use to make a lot of grammatical errors.
I have used alot of quickwrites as blog posts because it works like an outline. In class we only get 10 minutes to write and i basically just jot down the first thoughts that pop into my head and i don't have much time to go in depth. You could say its like a rough draft. I find it easier if i use my quickwrites as blog posts because if i don't then i can sometimes take me forever to pick a topic to write about. So i go home and type what i have on my paper and then i check the grammer and spelling. When i write fast under pressure i tend to make many mistakes in what letters end up on my piece of paper. Then from there i sometimes try to look up information on the internet on the topic that im writing about like the one quick write i wrote about if people with prostetic legs should be allowed to compete in the regular olympics. For that quick write/ blog post i found many convincing articles about this question. I pull ideas from the information and then i extend my writing maybe backing it up with some examples or quotes. Of course with the proper credit.
I get alot of my topics from quick writes. But a few time now i have written a couple songs and put them up on my blog. Some peolpe may think that to be inspired you have to have experienced something, when the truth is, you can be inspired by anything and anyone at any time. A single word or sound can be inspiring, wether it inspires you to write, compose, draw, or paint. Wrriting songs is a way that i show my emotions,its like a therapy for me, or just to show what im feeling. i love the feeling after i write a new song, even if it is not that good i feel i can be free. After i write a song i leave it alone for a while sometime for weeks and then when it crosses my path i read and i try to add or take away words, i try to make it better. i literally just wrote this part of a song like 40 minutes ago. i decided to take a break from my final and i heard the word pain in a commercial, it was in Spanish...dolor. So i just starting putting words together and this is what i got...its in Spanish.
verse1
que voy hacer con tu amor
que voy hacer con mi dolor
cada vez que te veo
you creo mas en ti
pero cada vez tu me dejas ir
chorus
me estoy callendo
y te estoy perdiendo
y tu no vuelves mas
perdoname, ahy por favor, si podras
no fue mi intencion
causarte dano
yup that's what i got. It still needs improvement but its okay. You can write about anything. if your in your room just grab a journal and write something about your dog. Jot down words that rhyme or even if they don't rhyme. What you write really only has to make sense to you.
Overall i think this year went by even faster than last year. I have seen a drastic change in my writing and how fluid it is. I saw how my writing vocabulary increased and also the amount of work i produced. I feel very confident that next year will be very successful because of how i improved this year. I hope i get Mr. Sutherland again next year so i can get more in the habit of writing blogs..but even if i don't :( i will still continue to post blogs. Also for my writing portfolio i printed all the blog posts i ever wrote and put them into it. Almost 30 pages! I can't wait until senior year when i get to see all my work and what i wrote in the past years. It should be interesting. When i read over the essays i wrote last year freshman year and saw my work from this year i was surprised and amazed at the change. I sure am going to miss 4th period English with Mr. Sutherland.
