Hey everyone! How are you all doing this week? Is everyone as excited as I am to end the semester? I personally am very excited because I graduate in April so it's just the end of this semester and then two more classes in the winter 2011 semester. I can't begin to explain how excited I truly am! And it isn't just because I am graduating, it's a lot more than that. I guess it is the realization that I will be done with undergraduate school and i will have my Bachelor's Degree in English from Oakland University. And I don't necessarily know how everyone else feels, but my time at Oakland University has been incredibly difficult. Everyone here is so hard to please and I know it will only get worse if I ever decide to go on to graduate school.
Anyways, getting to the topic at hand for the week. I started this blog because I wanted to be able to improve my writing skills over the course of the semester. I know many people haven't really been reading my blog in particular, but if you have, can you please comment on my writing? I always try so hard to do what I think is right when it comes to my writing, but I have realized lately that I simply write how I speak. And is there necessarily anything wrong with that? I'm not sure of the real answer, but I don't see anything wrong with how I write. I know that I am good at spelling and grammar, and I know I tend to use commas over the limit sometimes but I am willing to admit that. Other than these few things, what could possibly make me a better write and make me improve?
After being in this course, I think I know how to answer my previous question now. It is all in the revision process. To be quite honest, I am so full of myself and when it comes to my writing, I always believe my first draft is perfect so I never want to revise. Now that I have grown up a little bit, I realize that the revision process is absolutely necessary because even someone as perfect as me may have missed the tiniest thing that could mean everything to the entire paper or whatever it is that I am writing.
After being so burnt out from this semester, being in two workshop classes, I know realize that I am absolutely tired of writing. And to top it all off, I still have so much writing to do. Three papers, about fifteen poems, about twelve exercises, and only god knows what else. I am really done with writing for this semester and it isn't even over yet. Is everyone understanding my excitement for the end of the semester now?
Anyways, I better cut this blog short now since I have seem to get a little off topic. Maybe I just need to take the time to chill out, relax, hang out, or whatever it is called these days and just get everything done. I won't see you all soon because we are doing those meetings at different times on Monday. Good luck next week. And oh yeah....GO BLUE on Saturday!
I'm so glad I don't write the way I speak. The awesome thing about writing is that I can make myself come across better than I actually am.
ReplyDelete“I write it right but say it wrong, Lesser thought. I write it right because I revise so often. What I say is unrevised and often wrong. Then he thought, I write about love because I know so little about it.”
-Bernard Malamud
(I'm not sure I've ever written or done anything perfect.)