The Meta-Post

Blogging was something I definitely never thought I would have been able to do.  Ever.  Ever.  In fact, the entire prospect of blogging killed me and terrified me when we were first presented with the task.  There were so many things that I just thought I would never be able to figure out from being inspired enough to write every week, to being confident enough to put my own writing out there.  But lately, I have noticed how much different I am about the entire experience, I see inspiration for blogs everywhere, and I am no longer quite as afraid of what people may or may not see in my writing.

For me, one of my biggest challenges is finding out what question to ask, and it's probably because I haven't completely figured out where the focus of each one of my blogs is.  I know there must be some balance of how many questions a blog should bring up, and how many they should answer.  When I started my blog in the fall, my first blog was called The Non-Namesakes, it sort of acts as my introductory blog.  But what I notice looking back on it is that while I did (and still do) think the idea of where names come from is very interesting, what I offered with that blog was just an observation on what makes names and their origins important.  If whoever reads my blog had wanted to know what I think about names, than they would have loved that post, but I have a feeling that people are more interested in being intrigued, and questioned, and having things to wonder about.

Fast forward a couple of blogs and you get to  "The Hippocratic Oath... For Reporters?".  I still enjoy this blog, but when I look back on it, I realized that one of only the two things I put in bold was "Should the news even be allowed to do that?" What a waste of bold!  If someone were to look at my blog, the first thing they would have seen would have been a vague statement, about basically nothing.

Overall, I do think I have grown as a writer this semester, becoming more confident and easy going with my writing, and being able to not worry every time I put a blog out there.  I know that by the time second semester comes around I will be using this post as an example "the sad beginning," for now, I am happy to say that I am proud of the work I have done and how much I have grown since September.