reflection

I started this project with a mild sense of dread.  It reminded me to much of journaling which has never been my favorite.  At first it seemed easy to type for ten minutes.  The hard part I found out was coming up with topics to write about.  I felt like I was just babbling constantly.  I discovered that even though I was free writing by the third week my thoughts seemed clearer as I wrote.  I liked the ease of free writing as long as I was inspired by the topic.  Therein lies my dislike of the project. I had the hardest time finding topics so I just wrote about everything around me.  I don’t know if I’ve changed that much as a writer.  When I’m writing a first draft it does make me stop and free write all my thoughts then go back later to edit.  I wouldn’t say I’ve seen a significant change in my writing.  My average length went up to around 350-375 in ten minutes.  Again, that depended on the topic.  It truly was my greatest weakness through the whole project.  I think I did every topic suggestion that my classmates put on Black Board.  Now I can’t say it would make it any better but maybe at the beginning of the project everyone should post ten topic ideas.  It wouldn’t matter if some people duplicated topics there would be plenty of ideas for people like me who are topic challenged.  Over all it was a good experience with some challenges along the way.