Debrief: Blog Week

Succcess! The fact that I accomplished my goal and wrote once a day is victory enough, but I there are a few other successes here. Firstly, my writing was pretty long. I thought I would end up having to BS some one-paragraph-ers, but I never did.

I did have quite a bit of trouble squeezing in the time one night, so I ended up writing an improvised narrative. This was a bit of a disappointment, because I decided partway through the week that the skill that I wanted to work on this week was writing essays. So in a sense this post was something of a sell-out. Interesting, though it was the fastest write, i think that it’s the most interesting read. This either means that, as I’ve suspected, I’m not very good at writing essays (both at making them interesting and at writing them quickly), or that I’m good at writing narratives. Or maybe narratives are just easier both to write and read in general (this isn’t hard to believe). Certainly I would make a whole other marathon out of narrative writing. Maybe use a process like I did for my modernism project a couple years ago, where I improvise a story, then polish it.

I need to develop a mechanism for justifying the both lack of length and lack of completeness of thoughts. Experience suffers from a lack of both, but I think that it’s nonetheless an interesting idea, and worth writing about. These kinds of pieces can be meant to provoke the reader to explore the topic themselves, or even to discuss with others. I want to allow myself to do more thinking out loud, because I know that writing things out often helps organize my thoughts (that was one of the goals of this marathon week). This could be a really interesting format, where I just record my stream of consciousness while I reflect on an issue that I’m unsure about.

So let’s keep the momentum going. School is about to get crazy for the next couple weeks, but I want to make my crop rotation a priority as well. I’m going to keep blogging, but now I’m going to explore my above stream of consciousness ideas. Maybe I’ll extend this into finals week, so that I can trace the way that my logical process becomes altered as I slip into insanity.