Entry #11. Blogging Can Be Hard

It is now the end of the semester and this blog is almost done. I hope that everyone has read and enjoyed one article at least. Blogging is a fun experience that has a lot of variance as you go from one to another. I personally like to write my blogs with a tone of levity and include entertaining pictures to help keep the read from becoming monotonous; others enjoy being much more direct and serious or have humor as a centerpiece. What I am getting at is blogs are not uniform. When writing one you have to write how you would write, forgetting learned writing habits. If you write it this way it will be much more enjoyable.

Blogging was awesome. To think, that writing without any restrictions and very little direction would be enjoyable beyond the standard essay that focuses on writing in a way that forces a reader to find something. With blogging, it is completely different. There is no writing to convince someone of something. Writing is done by the individual in their style and this helps develop a person as an author. This new found style and freedom carries over to essays that are required for the rest of the class, and makes the essays better, as now a student have found a flare for writing that they have made their own.

Blogging breaks away from the standard essay, and I have to think teachers would enjoy that prospect. With blogging, no longer is anyone forced to write. Now, people are allowed to write, and this makes a huge difference. Bloggers are freed from learned writing techniques and style and actually write. It creates a voice that carries over to other writings making so it is individual papers instead of the paper that is due that week. Even if at times it can be hard to write a blog you are fully engaged with or come up with a relatable topic, that is the beauty of a blog. The topic does not limit it. You can write about a topic with any view and present it in any way, because of this, I will always credit blogs with letting me break away with what I perceived as the correct way to write. There is no correct way.

Reading my classmates blogs was as fun as writing my own. I saw a multitude of styles that let each person talk in their own voice and develop into authors. It was quite the experience. Due to the number of posts and bloggers, it was never hard to find something I found interesting or easy to read. It was grand to see my classmates write and talk about things they found interesting and were passionate about. With that being said, it was less grand when I clicked on a blog and saw someone was just writing for points. The point of the blog is to allow students very few boundaries and write how they would, yet there were always posts that were there just to soak up points with no real heart behind them. Do not write like that. That is not what this project is about.

Blogging has shown me that writing is not a linear strategy and should not be approached as such. It has shown me that blogs do have value. It has shown me that I should not have dreaded writing it in the beginning. The sooner a blog is seen as more than a project, that is when actual writing begins.

I hope you enjoyed this post, perhaps the last one. Be sure to comment how you feel about blogging, this article, past articles, and how you have been changed by blogging. Enjoy your future with writing.