Last Blog of the Year :D

Over the course of this year I've learned a lot about blogs. Personally, I feel that writing in a notebook is limiting, versus a blog. A notebook has lined paper, a certain amount of space and a tendency to have my hand cramped within minutes. The beauty of typing has lead me to not have any cramped hands and the internet has an infinite amount of space, and doesn't look imbecilic when you don't fill up the entire page. Yes, writing in a notebook is old fashioned and you must do it in order to be able to continue to high school, yet in the future there is a very huge chance that no one will be writing by hand, and we will all draft by computers. These assignments from teachers may be changed to the format of a blog.

In what ways can writing online be limiting or liberating? I think that when you have to write online about something that truly is something you don't have any strong feelings about, are not interested in the topic and you just feel forced to do the assignment, is limiting. That specific blog post will not be as impressive as the ones where I truly let myself go with my feelings and knowledge, to truly prove an argument or tell the story. The result of these two blog posts are what causes online to be limiting or liberating as well. For example, someone who sees my very good blog post can comment on it and truly show me that they enjoyed the post and that my feelings mean a lot to the readers, which is a liberating feeling. But when someone sees my mediocre blog post and points it out by writing in the comment section, it's limiting because you just want to delete the post afterwards and not start again, because you're ashamed.

I benefited from this experience in so many ways. When I was younger I always wanted my friends to see my work but not be around me when they were reading the many stories or essays I wrote. This is the perfect answer to that problem and I'm almost always thrilled with the comment section. I also truly was able to keep up with my reading and probably read more than in the past and wrote more because I was truly analyzing all the books I read and, draining them for more information for a blog post.