For
the past nine months along with many other eighth grade students at William
Alexander Middle School I created a Reading blog. With motivation from my
teacher I would post on it almost every week. That school is slowly and sadly
coming to an end I finish this collection of posts with a final reflecting
post.
When
I first created my reading blog I quickly realized my normal reading routine
didn’t produce enough ideas for weekly blog posts. From this realization I
pushed myself to read more and think more about what I read. Instead of my
usual readers diet of a half an hour a day I began to read more and more every
week pushing my self to read almost every day.
Having
a reading blog although increased the amount I read and thought while reading
had some restricting factors as well.
Personally as a reader I know from experience that getting down ideas
can be difficult for me. By this I mean that I can formulate a good idea in my
head but translating it onto paper or into sentences can be hard for me. While
using my blog this difficulty of mine often got in the way of my posts. Because
blogs are open for the world to see I often create high expectations for my
self, which in the end results in a form of writers block. This limited myself from showing true thoughts
on books. This restriction did however create well-formed ideas, instead of
simple notebook notes that often pretty useless these ideas could end up being
well thought out and valuable to the story.
