FINAL

8. How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?

One blog a week, easy 10 points, and has to be 300-400 words. That was my first thought on blogs. Do what is required and I get an easy A. This easy assignment became forgettable to me, to the point where I would skip two weeks of blogging. My grade went down because I forgot. I'm not a big fan of writing, because I have never had a teacher or someone to motivate me into this world of writing. I had to write about books that I didn't care for or a topic that I could care less about. After watching my grade go down, I realized that this assignment could be a way to write about a topic that I liked. My teacher could know alot more about me and other students, just from blogging weekley. We didn't have to follow a format on writing, but to purely write down what you are feeling. I don't know why this didn't hit me in the first place. Blogs are a way to write your thoughts and ideas. All my blog topics are something that I care for deeply but I couldn't convey my passion onto my blogs. Another ordeal that I had with blogs was the issue of having a semi-fear of writing. I have never felt comfortable with writing, because I never really liked what I wrote. It was either the boring overuse of simple words or having grammar issues. I believe that I am an insecure writer. Blogs are starting to change my insecurity about writing.

Throughout my whole school years, I felt lost in how to write. Each teacher had their own idea of how we were suppose to write and I geusss this made my insecurity with writing worse. I felt better on writing what teachers wanted to read instead of creating my own writing identity. Blogs helped me create this identity that I have been yearning for. I have learned to like blogging and how they work for this class. A whole new way to vent on those thoughts and knowing that you could be heard from a couple of friends to a possible thousands. I doubt I have people reading my blogs but blogging gives me that mentality. Everytime I blog, I feel that a million of people are going to read this, and so I write to be more interesting but all me. Though blogging is helping me with my writing identity, I still have trouble with writing down what I mean. Sometimes a person can't always say what they mean, this irritates me. Blogging is helping me with writing down what I mean, though it is a gradually growing goal, it's going forward. My insecurtiy is slowly falling down like any other insecurtiy that people have, and I'm glad I have a way to do it. I have grown to enjoy blogging and how it helps to show who I am as a writer.

10. Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?

My ideas so far, have been a little more on personal topics. They are usually topics that are recent and close to me. Such as the The Only Girl blog about my experience as the only girl playing football my freshman year. That blog idea, really felt good to write about because I have never went into detail about my experience. In the beginning of the year I had a million ideas of what to write about. It varied from school, family, music, sports, and more general genres. Anyone can write about anything for there blogs, but why not write about something meaningful? I admit I was going along with the idea, but I have changed my topics on blogs. I have written about 13 blogs this semester and half of them are my own ideas. Some of them are from quickwrites, or required for English Class. The topics such as my two statemet of purposes were for school. I enjoy my second statement of purpose because it delt with the goals I wanted to achieve in my writing. Suprisingly, I wanted to blog about what I wanted to accomplish in my writing. Another blog post, Graffiti....Defacing??, was from a quickwrite and related to me. English class quickwrite gives hard topics that can be posted because everyone's interpertation varies.

Alot of my blogs are inspired by what was going on in that moment. My Bob Marley blog post was written because I was listening to him, while we were blogging in class. His music inspired me to write about him, becuase I have this long history with listening to him. One blog post that had the biggest inspiration was my Movie Fascination blog. I was watching the movie Julie & Julia, and Amy Adam's character, Julie Powell, was blogging about her journey in creating the beloved Julia Child's famous dishes.She wanted to create every single recipe in one of Julia Child's books in a year. While I was watching this inspirational movie, I wanted to blog about this movie. After I started the blog about this movie, I somehow shifted gears into writing about my love for movies. Movies have been this huge comfort of mine. It always help me to take my mine off of things. I have been inspired to write about things that mean the most to me.

2. Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc.

My favorite blog post was my Movie Fascination blog. Movies bring me this sensation of blocking all stressful thoughts. It brings sometype of relaxation and interest since I was a kid. Movies are a major comfort for me. When I wrote this blog I didn't realize how much I loved movies. My blog title didn't originate into my head until I wrote "I have grown into this huge fascination with movies." This quote of mine, sparked this blog into what I wrote it out to be. Making this blog is not only my favorite but the most suprising one. I felt it was like writing a rant about movies and everything that I wrote covered my reasons for loving movies. From writing a decent amount of blogs, my writing gradually breaks the fear of truely writing what you feel. I feel more confident in my writing, creating my writing my own identity. All from this one blog post of movies.

Another reason to calling this blog post my favorite is because it showed how much my father's influence in movies carried onto me, "My dad has seen many classics and I am trying to reach his level." He has been seeing movies longer then I have. My dad could demolish my list of movies. Almost every movie that is an oldie, he has already seen it. I have seen some kids not have anything in common with their fathers, causing this dead silence when they are alone. With my dad, we could talk nonstop because of movies. This close bond we have makes my relationship easier with my dad. This blog will definatley be memorable to me. Instead of becoming a movie critic, I think I am going to critique movies from my blog. When I wrote, "The future of the film bussiness will most likely get more fansy and realistic, and I am taking this personal journey with friends and family on seeing this unravel," I didn't comprehend what I just wrote. It is a given to watch a movie with someone, either friends and family, but as I get older I have this feeling I will be annotating every movie I watch.

Group Work

From always blogging, almost every week, I rarely proofread my work. I re-read it probably once and then I post it. From doing group work, I have more people that can edit my work. I like to add more then chopping off, so since we are learning how to cut redundancy sentences, group work would help me. I have found in previous times, that group work has improved my writing. I was more cautious about certain things, and how I was writing. I have realized what I write about comes off confusing to another reader. When more people edit your work, you paper is easier to comprehend, and flows better.
On the subject of friends vs. people writing the same thing, I would prefer both. Honestly, it is very akward for some random person to read your work and is also doing the same topic as you. The plus side is that they have the same or more knowledge as you do about that certain topic. They can add more insight about the topic and tell you if some points are wrong. Working with friends is much more easier and you can share your ideas more freely. Conversating with friends about their or your work does help, because you are trying to reach the highest potential in your writing skills.

Movie Fascination

From an early age I can truly say that my first movie was one of the classics. The age of 1 years old, I saw in theaters the Lion King. Though it is animation, who else can say that their first movie was one of Disney classics, well a lot of kids can. I have grown into this huge fascination with movies. I have watched numerous classics, such as the Godfather series, Citizen Kane, the Untouchables, Gone with the Wind,the Titanic, the Lion King of course and others. I can not fully call myself a true movie junky til I have watched Casablanca. I will eventually and then finally I will feel close to complete. Very dramatic but that was how movies were brought into the theaters. People like books, but I prefer seeing a visual fantasy.Though not all movies are fantasies they are also a visual realization of what people or animals are going through in the world. I do believe that if a movie was based off of a book, the book is always better. A possible way to bring a book equal to a movie was if movies could be longer then three hours.

My dad has seen many classics and I am trying to reach his level. Recently we were watching one of his favorites, Jeremiah Johnson. A 1972 classic starring Robert Redford, about a man trying to make a living in the wilderness without the knowledge of being a hunter. I wasn't into it for the first few minutes because I'm not a fan of most cowboy movies. I have seen The Good, The Bad, the Ugly, but not a big of fan. I think my band teacher ruined the experience because he continuously stops the movie in less then 10 minutes. Jeremiah Johnson sort of changed my thought on those type of movies. It held up to my expectation from how my dad was ranting about the movie. There is always time to watch a classic movie no matter what time of the day. Recent movies that I am considering classics from my generation is Juno, Precious, Slumdog Millionaire, Avatar, and the Harry Potter series. Most likely I am forgetting certain movies, but these are one of my favorites.
Like any other teen we are drawn to an action packed, sci-fi movie. One movie that has everything and more is the recently released Avatar. James Cameron out done himself once again, making a another all-time worldwide box office movie since the Titanic. He has also done the Terminator series and one of my dad's favorites, Aliens. This movie brought a whole new level of what special effects and technology can do. The two and a half movie is worth staying for a storyline that holds the audience.


If I were to be a movie critic for the rest of my life, I would love to go to work everyday. I would probably never take the job because I would never be living like a celebrity. I might as well be living with my mom on the couch, waking up every morning, picking those chewed popcorn pieces stuck in between my teeth. I won't be collecting popcorn pieces, but movie tickets for the rest of my life. The future of the film bussiness will most likely get more fansy and realistic, and I am taking this personal journey with friends and family on seeing this unravel. My fascination with movies, is an unexplained joy.