my revisioned final ( last and final final)

Question #8 How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?

• Has blogging had any other effects on your life beyond strictly your "school life"? If so, explain.
  
• For the second semester only: Do you plan on continuing to publish writing on your blog this summer, next year, or beyond? If so, what are your writing goals and how will you use your blog in the future?

I would say that my blogging topics have declined in value this semester. Unlike last semester where it was more interesting  to come up with new and exciting topics that everyone could relate to, this semester i feel like I'm just going through the motions of getting a blog post done. I was not putting any care or emotion into my second semester blog posts. My favorite blog post last semester would probably be goggles and chlorine part 1, and this semester, my favorite is my sacrifice (sorta). From "my sacrifice (sorta)" the only thing that appealed to me was this one quote :

"That same night i had a dream, it wasn't anything special, just me at my house at some sort of party. In the dream i opened up a Dr.pepper and chugged it in a single breathe, after doing so i thought to my self that i wasn't supposed to be drinking this and then i threw down the can, woke up and had to go to morning practice."

I feel like that this quote doesn't have the same level of emotion or description in it's description.

"...half and hour later i emerged from the water and rapped myself in a towel and headed over to my parents wondering what the hell had just happened...

Next thing i know,a man with a straw hat,thick rimmed glasses, and orange hair approached me and said that I had made the team. I was so happy that i was in shock and disbelief. So i asked the man why he had chose me out of all the bigger,stronger, older and more experienced guys. He told me that i was fast for my age, and that they were looking for a more variety of the team that they could mold over the years into the kind of swimmers that they wanted."

This quote compared to the other is great because there is so much description and more emotion in what I'm saying. The reader is better able to imagine what I'm going through. Every time i read this quote i can relive that moment over and over again.
 
I do plan on blogging during the summer, probably not about anything that special, just stuff like swimming, my job and things that are of importance to me. Next year I'm definitely going to still blog , hopefully more about whats going on in the world or on a thesis and also put up some of my crazy, lucid dreams that i have once in a while. Beyond that,  I'm not not so sure how long i will blog for, but i enjoy expressing myself in written word and will continue to do so hopefully til the end of high school and the beginning of college.


Question #5 If you used any quick writes as blog posts, how did they change from what you wrote by hand in class to what you published on your blog? In other words, how did you go from rough draft to final draft? Explain your revision/rewriting process.

I did use a couple of quick writes as blog posts. On " my sacrifice (sorta) ",   We were asked to write about how our lives would be if we had to give up something important to us for two days. Then we were asked to actually to give up that thing for a week, so i gave up Dr.pepper. In the blog post though, i narrate how my life changes over time and how i feel giving up my favorite drink for a week.

"I had just gotten done with my homework and had ate dinner, it was about six thirty or so and i had a major craving for a soda, i could feel a nice cold Dr.pepper running down my throat. From that moment i realized that giving up soda for a week would be a lot harder than i had anticipated."

When this was all a rough draft,  i wrote down how I thought it would feel. Going from the rough draft to the final wasn't hard at all, it was just imagining my self giving up something to actually giving it up.

                                                                                                                                  
Question # 2 Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc. And link to it, of course!

Another of my favorite blog posts this semester would be Valentines day. Its a great discussion topic because there are those who believe that every man in America should be getting his girl something nice to prove to her that he really cares for her, and then there are those who feel completely opposite. In this blog I argued how some people are so artificial with what they do on valentines day, and how they should just be glad that they have that one special person in their life to cherish.

"Its more like how much money you have to try to impress that person. And I'm pretty sure that's not how the HOLIDAY OF LOVE is supposed to work, its a holiday of love, not lust.....Even tho this holiday has been built upon bravado of jewelry, candy, teddy bears, cards, and flowers, I think that their is romanticism for those few who don't want anything else but to spend time with their loved ones.When valentines day comes around, don't freak about getting the most expensive gift in the store, but instead, get the most sentimental one."

My mom was the one who inspired me to write this blog. She freaking hates Valentine's day. She always says how this holiday shouldn't even be a holiday. I personally think that it should, but agree with her in that the true meaning of the holiday is lost in the quest to insanely expensive jewelry or flowers rather than concentrating on expressing what the people you love mean to you.