This year, I tried something I truly never believed I would ever do. This was blogging. My experience was truly life changing and helped me in so many different ways. Not just writing. As a kid I always believed that blogging was for food critics and fanatics. Although you may say I was naive at the time, I’m sure that everyone believed blogging was for one specific purpose. However for those who simply read blogs, I truly believe that blogging has completely changed my attitude and ability to share what I believe without fear of acceptance or not.
I’ve learned countless methods, ideas, and overall STUFF from blogging. I’ve learned to read what someone thinks and give my idea own opinion. I learned that writing can be fun. Not just a task that is needed to be done in MLA format and Times New Roman font. Writing should be about something you enjoy. Not a book you skimmed through in a few days. Blogging will change your whole perspective on sharing your ideas and writing from the creative sector of your brain.
Although I started slow, I finished fast. As I continued to write, I learned what were the more popular topics, and how to draw your audience’s attention. Throughout this year I changed the way people thought. I transferred my ideas into the brain of a reader. That’s what I feel is so sacred about writing. Implanting thoughts from one person to another.
For soon to be bloggers, there is one simple thing you must do in order to enjoy blogging. Don’t sweat the small stuff. I started off writing the blogs as if it were an assignment read by judgmental brainiacs. Don’t try to perfect the eloquence of your writing. As a writer you need to understand that what you write is for you. It’s okay to start a sentence with “and” or “but”. Write the way you want to be heard, and you will soon enjoy your blogging experience as much as I enjoyed mine.
In the end. the only thing I would change about my blogging experience is the ability to allow the more “photogenic” students to vlog and do their own way of sharing their ideas. For that was the whole purpose of us blogging.
Be creative and think around the box.
-Mitchell
Play the Man Not the Game 