Blog #10

Throughout the course of this semester, I have begun to realize more things about my writing than I have before. Thinking all the way back from our very first blog post, I often fall short to the “Inspired Writer” that Sarah Allen referred to, but that’s okay. I began to realize that my writing won’t be as perfect as I truly want it to be, but that’s okay. As I wrote more and more this semester, my vision of a “perfect” piece of writing has changed; it’s the imperfections that make it your own. Although my writing isn’t perfect (and nowhere near that), it is still my writing, and I take pride in that.

I soon realized that my writing style isn’t so much as to what my writing is, but rather what the reader makes of it. My writing style is more focused towards persuasive and imaginative writing, as I like to tap into the reader’s perspective of things and influence the way that they think. I write to invoke emotion and persuasion. I often compared music to creative writing, and that thought hasn’t changed much from my first blog posts, since I create a strong emotional connection to music. But it is my realization that I can create a strong emotional connection to writing that changed throughout the semester.

I feel that I often fall short when it comes to personal writing. The most helpful assignment for me was most likely the assignment where we had to “explode the moment.” Through that assignment, I have realized that I can put so much thought and detail into even the simplest things, and I feel like that concept could be applied towards various applications in writing.