Reflective Essay

This first year at Asti was a total failure for me. I expected this year to be very good because I was dedicated to getting good grades and starting fresh. Well, in the end nothing changed except I think my writing got worse. I say this because I try to do my homework as fast as possible. If you look under this post you can see that over time my blog post would get weaker and weaker over time. For example I posted this in one of my blogs:

Today is the fourteenth of January and I coming home from a perfect day of school at a great high school. After have setting my day expectations so high I have to go to work with my dad and working at a store can really mess up your day. I go to the store and the first costumer I see I greet them and they look at me and don't say anything.

The way I wrote this made me sound like I was still in elementary school because my grammar was way off and I rushed to do it.

When I do take my time to do my work it comes out to be pretty good because I get deep into my writing. For example, read this post that I took my time on mid life crisis last chapter. I think of this post as one of the best ones that I have done so far because I took my time doing it and I had fun doing it.This is what i said “So i grab my laptop and punch a whole straight through the laptop screen and tour off the screen from the keyboard. I wen't insane, I beat the thing until you couldn't tell it was a laptop. When I am done I notice that Karen is outside waiting for me and I rushed outside, not having enough time to clean the mess that I made so I just locked my room and took the key.”  The way that I expressed my feelings in this one made me want to read it over and over again because i was proud that I wrote about one of my hard times. Every time I read that post I am surprised  about how deep I got into it. this was one of my best post of all time. Starting from next year I am going to try to make all of my blog posts the same as the one I was talking about before. I learned that if I was emotional at a point in my life I should post as blog to express my feelings. The background of that post was an insane person which was me when nothing went my way. It was also a dark mood that made me want to brake things until the point that there was nothing to brake.

Having a blog really changed my life because it can let people from around the world see my work and and it is a place for me to express what I am feeling. Blogging has really impacted the way I write because now I am a faster typer and I get a lot of comments on my blog post that tell me how I can improve and what I should do to make my post more interesting. This helps a lot because when I have a paper I post it on blogger and see what people think of it and they tell me what I need to do in order to make my post better or what to change to make it sound more interesting. For example I wanted to improve on my work for Ms.Corbally’s class and I posted a blog that was related to what I was trying to turn in to her. A lot of people gave me feedback on what I should do to make it a better piece. I revised the paper and it sounded like a paper that took me a month to do. Blogging helps a lot, whether it’s to clear the air of your emotion or to blow steam or even help you advance as a writer, blogging is very helpful and can be used when ever you want and people form all around the world can look at your work and help you with it.

Even though I said that my writing got worse, in some ways it did improve. Like now some of my blog post, drag the reader into the story and want to make them finish and see what happens in the end. I also tried writing about topics that I had no idea about. for example, my favorite thing to do is watch or read books about the gods and I never thought to write about it. So when I did I had a lot of fun talking about it and I loved the descriptions I put into it because it made the story seem like it was real life. When ever I have to post a blog I will think of the things that I like to do and the things that amuse me. Another topic that liked to write about was electricity. I did not know that I liked it some much until I did some research and when I knew what I was talking about. My new way of blogging is to research the topic that I am supposed to write about until I understand the topic.

I didn’t know that it was possible to write about anything that happened in your day even if it was simple thing like say you feel to the grown and you wont to write about it. I can say I seen my eyes flash before my eye and the wind push against my face as a fell with my dignity and pride. There are a lot of ways people do this like a short story turns into a very descriptive story that drags the reader into the piece. I didn’t really do that at all this year because doing that kind of work will take a lot of time but next year I am only going to do that type of work because it really does make your writing much better. this takes your writing to a whole diffident level and it improves you as a person and your writing or what ever you might be aiming for.