The Blogging Life

When I attended my first college English class, I was told we were going to be blogging and commenting on other people’s blogs. My first thought was this kind of sounds like Facebook or twitter but it can’t be like that because this is English class. As I designed my blog site, I found it interesting that we were going to be writing about topics that were happening in our everyday lives. When I wrote my first blog, I found myself getting into what I was writing. Our word amount was 250-300 words and I was so interested in writing my blog that when I was finished I wrote almost 800 words. I have really enjoyed this writing process and I feel like it helps me to express what I am thinking and feeling at that time. I also feel like blogging has helped me to become a better writer by reading other peoples writings and comparing them to mine.However, I have to be aware of my audience when I am blogging because it is an academic point of view and you actually have to have a point and not just ramble on about something. I used to hate when teachers would tell us to write 5 paragraph essays about something that I had no clue about. I believe blogging gives me the freedom to write what I want and to choose the topics that I write about as well as read some other very interesting writing from my peers about stuff that I can relate to. I enjoy putting my own opinion out there and seeing what other people think about it. This is the best thing about blogging to me because I can get the situation off of my chest without any judgments from my peers. I have kind of struggled with coming up with topics that I was going to write about to begin with but I would just sit my computer down until something popped into my head.