July 19, 2013

So tonight begins my reflection on the blogging/journal fluency assignment. In general, I enjoyed this assignment; finding that on days that I was extremely stressed, I was able to use it as an out. It was nice to be able to come to my own little world and just share whatever was on my mind. One of my biggest struggles was finding topics. Yes, I used the resources and the internet but it seemed that even with those I could not spark a flow in my mind to make a large portion of the topics work. There were, however, a few blogs that I felt the topics and the text really worked. One was my description of my grandparent's living room; and another, my I Believe blog. During these, I found it really easy once I got started to go into descriptions and thoughts. I believe by some of my feedback comments that these specific posts drew my audience in. One of my other least favorite things about this assignment was having to blog EVERY day. We had seven blogs due each week so even if you didn't post everyday, you would still have to come up with double posts on another. This seemed a bit daunting to me at times because of the difficulty coming up with subjects. I can't say at this point still that I really approach my blogs in a specific way. I usually just type in my title and begin with whatever comes from my mind and let it develop from there. A lot of free-writing for sure. It is my hopes that maybe as I go forward I can develop more ideas for topics and creativity. I noticed some real creativity in a couple of my classmates' blogs, made me envious.