Over the school year, I have learned and written much and developed greatly as a writer. This blog is like journal keeping track of how my writing has developed over the school year. I can look back at what I have done at the beginning of the year and compare them to my more recent posts. I can view how my work as well as the amount of thought I put into my blog posts.
My writing was much simpler at the beginning of the year. There seemed to be more word repetition and some somewhat awkward wording here and there. Even the diction of some of my older work seemed like it could use a little bit of improvement. Now, those areas of my writing have improved greatly. The quality of my writing may have improved, but is till have along way to go.
When I look at my first blog post in comparison to this one, I quickly prove my own point. The writing style was very simplistic, and it sounded kind of “flat”, there wasn’t much character in the writing. The word choice was extremely limited compared to some of my more recant posts (not to say that these posts aren’t limited themselves, however, just not as limited). The post was rather dull and repetitive. I slowly started to get more and more character into my writing as the year went on. Without much to define who I am, is it really my blog or just a monotonous robot created for the soul purpose of writing dull blogs?
Still, I seem to be over-exaggerating my work. Although my writing has improved, my posts aren’t the most gripping, expressive, emotional pieces of art ever to come from the depths of my mind. I really could have spent more time re-wording them and adding character and expression to them but I honestly must say that wasn’t really my goal. I just wanted to get it over with, really. Now that I think about it, though, I have been putting some more thought into my blogs, even if they aren’t mybest work.
This, by far, is my best blog post. Being the last post, I am putting forth more effort, character, and thought into this blog than any other because I want my last post to reflect everything I’ve learned, how my writing has improved, and to be a memorable last post, one that stands out from all the others. Well, actually… nah, I just want to do well because you’re grading the actual work this time (but we can always pretend like I have academic aspirations to go beyond the requirements, right?).
This post definitely reflects my personality, doesn’t it? Good, because that’s really what my, or anybody’s blog, really, is all about, right? Too bad it took me too long to figure that out. The blogs we do for this class are, or, at least, should be, much more than just assigments. They should reflect who you are as a person, not a student because its your own blog, created, customized, and updated by you, and nobody else.
And so I leave you with one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost:
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower
But only so an hour
So leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
Nothing gold can stay
(Sorry if there are any, I’m trying to be impressive and recite the poem from memory)
I leave with this because although sometimes the blogs were kind of a drag, I enjoyed writing posting on my blog, especially the ones where we posted pictures or connected things to novels we have read outside of class, posts where I can show a little bit of who I am, my interests, and the way I see things. This is by far my favorite blog post this year. Thank you for a great year of Honor’s English, and see you next year!
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