July 22, 2012

July 22, 2012

Final Blog Entry-Reflection

     When I first read over this assignment I thought that there was no way I could think of that many different topics to write about. Twenty-five different topics, one a day, how can I do this? So I started off, and at first it was very difficult to get into a rhythm. I was always hitting the backspace key. It would take me twenty to twenty-five minutes to get out a 300 word blog. After I got four or five blogs under my belt, writing started getting easier. I could come up with a topic super fast and could get it on paper in fifteen to twenty minutes. I was getting better, more comfortable with blogging. I have to admit, just the thought of my writing being on a blog where lots of people could see it held me back some. I didn’t write everything that came to mind for that reason. Gradually I started letting myself go and write what came to mind. I felt like I was becoming a decent story teller. I started getting better at describing things and being able to tell about my surrounding in a story. Around the fourteenth and fifteenth blog I started struggling with a topic to write about. It took me longer to think of something than it did to get it on paper, because now I get 300 words out in fifteen minutes. As a result, I was starting to get frustrated. I felt like I was just going through the motions. At the end of this assignment maybe I was getting burned out. No, I know I was getting burned out. I started getting very negative towards this assignment, whereas before, when I was in the beginning of the assignment, I looked forward to the journaling. Between the blog and all the other assignments, writing was starting to get rather exhausting. I just kept telling myself, “This is a summer class, it’s to be expected,” but I was still struggling with staying positive with this challenge. This assignment has made me a better writer, although I know I gave my best effort in the middle of the assignment not at the end.