Post Write

Blogging has taught me to consistently proof read my material. I checked multiple times over the period of a couple of days looking for errors and to my chagrin found them in a more plentiful and glaring way then before. Though this is a challenge in all process-based writing, the nature of work that has the potential for wide distribution (could you get wider then the world wide web?) makes proof reading an especially crucial step. Also, in an attempt to find the typical format and style of a blog, I looked at different blogging websites, which was maybe counter, productive. The wide range of styles and formats proved to be more overwhelming than helpful. Because I am writing this blog in an academic setting I knew the more colloquial and clearly editorial blog would be inappropriate.

 I haven’t felt paralyzed in terms of coming up with ideas for new blog entries. The topic leaves room for personal thoughts as well as reporting on legitimate events.  So far, I feel really proud with what I have come with, mostly because I love blogs and am just really proud to have created my own on a subject that matters to me. I was also proud of the background and header photo I picked out to help out the site’s aesthetics. Although, I am proud of this feature it could also be my blog’s weakness because of my lack of skill and experience in that area.

I fear that my blog entries have not included my own original thoughts and serve mostly to report or illustrate feminist activity. Since this an academic blog I feel writing my, maybe unsubstantiated opinions, would be inappropriate despite the freedom a blog grants. Also, my blog runs the risk of getting slightly off topic since I have a tendency to write about whatever pop culture interests me at the moment.

The first key into developing and improving my blog will be to vary the topics of my posts. As I said, my interests sometimes make me apt to repeat myself, though with that in mind I intend to mix things up. The next strategy involves remaining some-what objective while including my own thoughts and feelings in the posts. Then, I plan on also varying the media, (ie including my pictures, video, etc) and also mixing up the formatting of how I write the entries as well.