Final blog

For me the biggest challenge was finding the time everyday to blog. In looking through other student’s blogs, it looks as though some might have struggled with the time factor as I did, if not more. One of the advantages of taking online courses is the freedom of scheduling; some days are better then others. There were several days I just had to work it in. Writing for ten minutes was not the difficult part, knowing what to write about was. The days that I put more thought into my writing ate up a lot more then ten minutes. I also feel that spending more time and thought on my writing allowed it to be more descriptive and cohesive. I wasn’t randomly typing what happened to pop into my head at the time; I put effort into it. I used the classroom resource writing prompts on a few occasions; that seemed to help on the off days when I was drawing a complete blank for a topic. I started writing a story that generated from on of the prompts, initially I had no intention of continuing the story, but found myself working through the details from blog to blog. The struggle with that was getting back into the same mind-set from the previous blog so they didn’t seem like two separate thoughts. I think the writing has a good foundation, looking back at what I have wrote I could see some areas that could improve to make the piece stronger. Writing in general this semester has provided me with the opportunity to see that intriguing writing gives very descriptive details, setting the stage so to speak and the mood; it helps to draw the reader into the text. I feel it was beneficial, but every days is really a struggle to make happen.