I can't believe it's already the end of my freshman year! Man, time flies! Well, looking back on all of my old blogs really showed me a lot about how I have progressed as a writer. From the time I started blogging up until this final blog, I could see how I started out trying to have the best blog ever. In my “Blog Introduction” I was forcing the words. What I was saying was meant to sound good, not natural. By the time I was getting to our Great Expectations blog, I could write much more fluently. I noticed that as a beginning writer, I wrote about the prompt given. Most people would think that was a good thing, but to me, that only means that I was not willing to dive into the deeper meaning of what I was writing. As I said before, I forced the words out of my head, to my fingers, and onto the computer. Once I became a more developed writer, however, my blogs had much more fluency. I especially like the one I wrote about connections between Romeo and Juliet and modern day things. After some consideration of what I wrote, the connection itself made little sense at all, but I noticed how my writing had changed and become much more myself. My blog as a whole is basically about English prompts. One of my favorites was writing in either high or low diction, because I could truly be myself and talk how I would in a normal conversation. Mainly my blog served its purpose in that it helped me develop into a writer that was fluent, natural, and willing to put effort into discovering the hidden meaning in literature. Monica Dickens said, “Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.” The reason I chose this quote is because I this is how I view writing. Not as selfish, but as a way to escape reality and create a world that is all your own. I think that part of the blogs purpose was to allow us to really enter the world of another person. If you think about it, that’s really the 95% majority of what we do in English class. We read a book which is a mini universe that was put on paper. Its origin is the mind of another person. Their thoughts were preserved on the thin pages we now examine. After reading, what do we do? We analyze the work. We study it, decode it, dig out its heart all to find the message that the world’s creator was trying to convey all along. This is what I loved most about blogging. The way that we were able to enter into an alternate universe absolutely amazed me. I love reading, and I will never cease to love it. This blog has made a huge difference in the way I analyze literature, and the skills that blogging has taught me will help me so much with English classes in high school and through college.
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