Hey everyone! This is going to be the final thing I will posts onto my blog for the school year. This is my second semester final for English. I hope you guys like it!
How do the things you read influence what you write about or how you write it? The books I read influence what I write because as I am reading, I am getting some fresh topics to write about in great detail. When I read a book, I sometimes fantasize what will happen next, or what I wish to happen next. Those are some good topics for blogs. When I have enough solid info or things to say, then I write about it. Like the Lit Circle Letters we have to write to our partners who are reading the same books. I read a total of 4 books that involves writing Lit Circle Letters. The books include Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, and An Alex Rider Adventure: Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz. Out of these 4 books, the book I hated the most was The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time. It wasn't that I hated it, it was more the fact that it isn't my type of book. First, I like dogs, so why would I read about a dead dog. Second, I only read teen fiction. This was not very interesting, and I found that it did not grab my attention. This made it hard to write about because I didn't have very much to say, and I didn't have very many facts and information on this book to blog about. This made how I write different from my other blog posts because I had to find some way to make my blog post reach all of the requirements, like reaching the number of words needed for each blog post. Then my writing style drastically changes when I start taking the long way. What I mean is that each and every sentence has extra words in them. They contain words that aren't needed unless they need to make sentences longer, but contains the same meaning. I had to use this writing style many times because I usually don't have anything to say and I needed to make 500 words for my Lit Circle letters. I hope that in the future, I will eventually stop using this style of writing and start writing everything in my usual style. That will show how greatly my writing skills have improved over the years.
How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing? Do you plan on continuing to publish writing on your blog this summer, next year, or beyond? If so, what are your writing goals and how will you use your blog in the future? I like having a blog because it is a fun way of writing for school and you can greatly improve your skills as a writer. It also allows you to easily share your writing with the people around you and get feedback on how you can improve in your writing even more. You can also see the writing styles used by the students around you to greatly gain experience. Another reason for why I like blogs is because we don't have to sit around and write boring essays and read the boring class books. Blogging is a way to express yourself and write about anything you want with any style you want. Essays have topics you need to write about and you can't go, "Oh my gosh, did you see this person going to the mall yesterday with that guy? They looked totally cute together." You can't write like that. You must follow the basic rules to writing a an essay.That is why I prefer blogging rather than writing an essay. Blogging, however, has not changed the way I think or the way I think about writing. I learned throughout the school year that I like blogging. It is a way to write about anything you want, so I have decided to continue blogging even after school is over. It might not be as often, but I guarantee that there will be at least 1 or 2 new posts after the school year is over, depending on how busy my schedule is. I don't really have any writing goals. I just want to do it for fun. It is also a way to keep in contact with some of the people in my class.
Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write? That is a good question. It depends on the timing. Like sometimes I am reading a really good book, so I have lots of things to say. Other times, there are important events in my life that gives me the motivation to keep on writing. For example, when I was reading The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong, I learned that I really like the book. This gave me the inspiration to write my own version of the book of how I want the story to go. I called it, The Journal Of Chloe Saunders. When I wrote Part 1 to The Journal Of Chloe Saunders, and reread it, I truly believed that this was my best blog post throughout the whole school year. It showed how much my writing has improved throughout the year and especially since last year. It was fun writing about a book that I liked, and changing it to the way I want it to play out. When the idea first popped into my mind, I thought it would be very difficult to write, but it turned out to be very easy, and I liked writing that way. It was a fun experience. The events in my life that inspired me to write were important things like holidays to birthday to weddings. The most recent events were things like my Uncle's Wedding or the birth of twin boys on Cinco de Mayo. At first they inspired me to write, but in the end, I didn't have enough information to write with, so I then moved on to random things like writing about what Melissa Chung is wearing to they bug bites on her body. One of my most accomplishing series of blog posts that involved writing about a part of my life is, My Alaskan Cruise 2009. This series of blog posts included a weeks worth of fun in the Alaskan sun. It was technically considered my very first blog post so it is very important to me. Part 1 in Juneau, Alaska, was written on my birthday, so that one in the series was super important to me. To sum up what I have just explained, I basically get my topics from everywhere around me. At the beginning of the school year, I had a very hard time finding a topic to write about, but as time moved on, I eventually got used to writing blogs posts and eventually, things got easier too because now I have experience and practice with them.
That's all I have for you folks today. Hopefully I will have some time this summer to write and I hope you guys will be there when I start writing again. See you guys next time. Until then, see ya!
