Final Blog Entry

When I first read the assignment that we were suppose to blog EVERYDAY for 25 days, I freaked out a little. It seamed an easy enough task, just tedious. As I started blogging I discovered I was right about the second part, but wrong about it being easy. The first few blogs were fairly simple, but as I started running out of ideas, getting pounded with extra hours of work, moving and running low in "creative juice", it got harder to reach the 300 word requirement and not make this blog a journal. To be honest, I have not always enjoyed having to blog everyday, and some days I did not blog, although I did try. I think blogging can be fun at times and tedious at others. I have a hard time deciding what to blog on. Should I write a story, pick a random word or phrase, or write about an experience I had that day? I would usually pick story first, but then I would get writers block, so I would try to think of a word to write about, but nothing would come to mind so I would ask my husband to give me a word, but not like his word. Some days it would take me a whole hour to write what should only take 15 minutes. Towards the end of my blogging, I would mostly write about the essay I had coming up. I feel like I can be a creative person, but if I was creative, wouldn’t blogging be easy? I guess what Ann Lamontt said in “Bird by Bird” would prove otherwise; writing is not always easy. Freewriteing was helpful in warming up; much like athletes will warm up before a game. Usually once I got started it would be easier and I would start to enjoy it more because I did not have to worry if my writing was making sense or if my grammar was correct or not. I have a lot of stories I want to tell but how can I do that if I never start writing? I have found blogging a very helpful to exercise. It has let me know that as long as I can just start writing, I can write.