Blog Reflection

I know that as human beings we are supposed to know a little about everything and that the requirement classes we take are because we are going to need them eventually. I also understand that this blog helps us to express ourselves to the outside world, how we do so and how we respond to feedback. But let's be honest, I don't like to write at all and literature is not my strongest subject. I did not feel comfortable writing this blog; since I felt it was pressured and I couldn't truly write what I wanted because I had to follow some type of pattern in our writing. I think I like the journal better because I could keep a relation to myself and figure some stuff about me. On the contrary, I haven't learned anything from writing in this blog. I think this class has been more of "how to be a writer" instead of teaching us how to publish, which ways are better and what should we expect from the world or something like that. Instead, they leave us to write freely and to learn by ourselves what writing is good and what writing is bad. And yes, we have to think by ourselves, but we are in this class to learn and improve our writing style.

Maybe the only thing I could learn about this blog is how to take feedback, and how to give feedback, somehow. I think feedback should be the good type of criticism, let this be that what we say helps the writer improve. But it will be better if we could say what we really believe and think. When we are given a process to follow on feedback, this may makes us hold back into what we really think of the work. I think that I like to keep things short and straight to the point. Just a brief introduction, the facts, and a conclusion. That’s how my writing and publishing will be from now on. 

**added may 5,2015**

Well, I have written 15 blog post, including this one, and most of them are between 300-500 words (some more, some less). Since day one, I think my writing has changed in a way that I now state more of my opinions and it's more personal and direct to my writers than before. One of the blog posts that was most significant to me was the one where I had to talk about myself, called "So you wanna get to know me?". I think this blog post it's of more significance to me since I had to talk about myself, which I don't usually do and that I mostly try to avoid. It was a rare experience, and the outcome of it was not what I was expecting when I started writing it. As my development as a student, this blog has help me be more responsible and be more careful of the things I publish to the world. It was a nice journey, but it take a lot of time even though it was worth it.