“Living
in the Glass Castle” wasn’t my first real blog, I had a personal one
for friends and family to read that I created in the fifth grade. It was
called “The Young Artist” and it consisted of photos I took from my
travels with my family, my own artwork and opera reviews every month.
It’s similar to the one I’ve been using all year, but I’ve learned a lot
more from this blog rather than the one I created years ago.
This
year’s blog had taught me very much as a reader and a writer, I’ve
learned to write efficiently late at night (usually the night before
it’s due) and I’ve also learned how to write structurally. I think from
reading other student’s blogs and reading through some of my own entries
it’s made it easier to point out flaws in my own writing as I am
typing. However, writing online is much harder than writing in a
notebook. In a notebook you can see the entire thing and be able to
cross out things, and see where the flaws are physically. I also write
much faster than I type. I also find that if I type something, even if
it’s crap I’ll consider it a finished project and not revise/edit it as
thoroughly as I would if I wrote it out. But spell check gets editing
done much faster.
I
believe that people create characters for themselves online, and unless
it’s an anonymous blog of some sort, people are afraid to be honest
because it feels more permanent. So they create a personality that only
projects some of themselves, and is mainly what they wish to be. And a
lot of times teenagers abuse this freedom of creating a different you
online, they say awful things to others via the internet because it
feels as though they don’t have responsibility over it because it’s said
though a screen. So they say things they would never say to the
person’s face. It’s an immature thing to do, but in some ways it’s good,
because if it’s seen through a screen, it could be less hurtful and
people are being honest.
I
think after this year I may continue this blog, or continue “The Young
Artist,” I’d like to focus on the arts, continue to write about it and
show it to people. Blogs are a great way to show art and writing through
a screen to the world and I’d like to continue keeping a blog.
