Entry #6: Endings and Beginnings...

   Yes. I know that title is clichéd, but they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Anyways, it is appropriate for today. By Thursday, I’ll be done with the same English 101 class that had helped me to spawn this blog in the first place. To be honest, I’m a little sad. Believe me, I’m happy to be one step closer to a college degree, but writing this blog was a lot of fun. As a child, getting me to write ANYTHING took a minor act of god, so I’m just as surprised as the rest of my family that I’m enjoying this as much as I am. The fact that it was a part of the class meant I couldn’t just play with it for a week, then get bored and go do something else (A VERY nasty/common habit of mine). I thought the topics were varied enough that I never really got bored with them, and were items that really anyone would have some interesting opinion on. As a bonus, half of them could be about whatever I wanted to write about at the time, which I appreciated when I wanted to let my creative juices flow.

  As far as it being a part of the class, I thought it was a pretty good idea overall. It was fun to see what my classmates thought about for our assignments in a format that allowed friends and family to comment to. Some of the personal entries were enjoyable, and I liked seeing what kind of interests the other class members had outside of class, complete with pictures! It almost seemed like a break from some of the more serious material we had to do throughout the course. More than a few times, I ended up getting ideas for my essays and independant stories just by working through a blog post. I do wish I could have kept to a better schedule, instead of trying to get them all done at the last minute, but that seems to be a recurring problem in my life recently. About the only complaint I can think of right now would be the trouble we had getting our blogs set up at the beginning of class, and that mess even took our teacher by surprise.

   But I really like the idea of putting my thoughts and stories out into the world for people to critique, and this really helped me to find out a lot more about the way I like to write. I am going to try to keep this blog going on my own, if for no other reason than I still have a bunch of ideas that I want to write and to see what other people think of them. Plus I really need the practice keeping to a schedule. I am still planning on participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and right now i'm trying to work through ideas that I can write on. Wish me luck. Before I sign out, I would like to thank Professor Chris Nielson for giving at least me a chance to find the fun side of writing. I look forward to taking more of your classes Mr. Nielson, and to everyone else, I hope I see you next semester. Adios!