Finale Blog Reflection

            Over the past 3 weeks and 24 blog posts, a challenge has been ensued and now complete. The challenge: to write my thoughts and beliefs in reflections, analysis, responses and creeds with clarity and fluidity.  This assignment challenged me to create and compose more written word then in any previous writing challenge. Some days, I strongly wished not to write. Those days I can see my writing illustrate a lack of direction. But often the blog post created in times like that where freewrites,    prompting me to let mental trains of thought flow to paper during a time I felt indisposed to create a single word.

    

        As the past three weeks have gone by, I surprisingly found myself delighting in certain blog post conceptions.  Illustrating a horseback ride through the heart of a thunderstorm became a work I felt I was able to purely express myself through. Writing the image of my ideal place was the first piece I came to truly enjoy. This post caused me to desire composing a reflection of the emotions and thoughts behind the blog, it caused me to desire writing MORE!

      

      Several times, I found myself reviewing previous posts. In these reviews I found grammar and composition mistakes, mistakes I never saw while composing and reading only a few days before. This gives evidence of how helpful, and important, moving away from one’s writing can be.

           

            Boldness was one of the changes I experienced in my writing. As I was assigned other English essays during this time, I found their first drafts became more fluid and abundant in my thoughts. Being able revisit through words, the emotions and thoughts I had on a particular day was a privilege I liked being able experience.            

           

            A long while back, my young self kept a journal. Reviewing those journals takes me on a very enjoyable reflective journey through my young girls mind. Thinking about it now, I fail to understand all the reasons I quit journaling. This assignment re-associates me with the many benefits and insights of keeping a daily writing.

Now, I wonder what this assignment might have been like if only I had continued journaling.

           

            I did often find myself in conflict with producing a blog seven days a week. Often, due to other life elements of work and school, writing seemed to be the last task I would ever wish to complete. To combat this resistance in myself, I often used this blog as a place I could turn away all rules and concerns and allow myself to simply vent my mind through freewriting.

           

            In this assignment completion, I realize I wish to not end writing blog posts. Even though I strongly distasted this project in the beginning, I have found many things I enjoy about the challenge of keeping a journal or blog.