Blog Reflection... It's Over ALREADY?! :'(

Over the trimester, I think that my writing quality has improved immensely. In the beginning of the school year, my writing was rather dull and robotic. You can see this in my first post when I said, “One of the major themes in this novel was to trust and support your family members, even if they've hurt you. This first begins when Elgin Branch, Bernadette's husband, is overwhelmed by Bernadette's complaining and ranting about her hate for trivial parts of life in Seattle.” In my later posts, I tried to add more flair to my blog so that one could hear my voice more clearly. You can see the progression most obviously in my third to last post when I said, “It's just been sitting at the bottom of my backpack lately and I didn't think to actually finish it until Halloween when I was sitting on the staircase waiting for some poor group of children dressed in adorable costumes in the pouring, cold rain to knock on the door.” In addition to this, my grammar has somewhat improved over the past few months. After copy-pasting my first post into Word, there were several grammatical errors, but in my later posts, there were none that I didn’t intend to be there. Also, one might notice that my later posts aren’t nearly as long or chunky as my initial posts. Some of my more recent posts could actually be combined into one very long post, but I broke them down so that it’s easier to understand the individual segments. In fact, my first post was 415 words long!! The later post was half that length at just 236 words. This is definitely an improvement for me because I used to have trouble getting my thoughts out and being brief about it, which is partially why I don’t have a Twitter account. One hundred and sixty characters are not enough for me!

During my blogging experience, I had a lot of trouble remembering to post every weekend because I usually do several posts at once when I blog, so I generally did two or three posts at a time in case I don’t finish my two posts for one week. Another struggle I faced with blogging was that I often didn’t have enough time in class to finish one entire post, so I would save them to publish at home, but I don’t remember to publish it, so I ended up publishing 5 posts at the end of the trimester even though I wrote them when dinosaurs still roamed the earth…I met my reading goal for this trimester because I set my goal as 12 for 2013 and I read 5 books, which was my goal for this trimester. I generally used GoodReads to look for new books to read and to check if a book is worth reading or not. This helped me as a reader this trimester because I actually think about books that interested me so I became a more active reader. Well, more like a thinking reader… :D