Blogging & Free-Writes

It's nearly the end of our English class, which means that by now we should all be finishing up our blogs and free-writes. When we first started this class and Caitlin told us that we had to free-write once every two days for 10 minutes, I thought it was going to be dreadful. I've never been a huge fan of writing, especially not for 10 minutes straight. I thought to myself, "This is going to be difficult.. I don't have the patience to sit down and write for 10 minutes." It wasn't until I finished the first one at home and I realized that it wasn't going to be as bad as I thought. It felt a bit good, actually. I was able to just write about anything for 10 minutes straight and not have to worry about my grammar or if it even made any sense. I just had to get my ideas down without stopping. Caitlin reassured us that we would never have to look at our free-writes again and honestly, I didn't believe it. I've always had to look back at previous work in my previous English classes but Caitlin was right. I never looked at my free-writes a second time after I finished writing them. Even though I avoided my free-writes after I had wrote them, they were still able to help my essays. Every set of free-writes we did was actually a great deal of help when I had to decide my topic. That wasn't all free-writes were useful for, though. Let's not forget about blogging. Well, actually I'm not sure how we could forget about blogging since you're reading my blog right now. But, anyways, all of my blog posts have been based on the set of free-writes we did during the 3 week period. At first, I didn't understand the whole point of free-writes. I thought it was useless and didn't serve much of a purpose, but boy, was I wrong. Free-writes were incredibly useful. If it weren't for free-writes, I would've had so much trouble deciding what to blog about and write about for my papers. Caitlin definitely knew what she was doing when she assigned us free-writes and that's the first and last time I ever question her teaching methods. Well, enough about free-writes. Blogging was pretty fun as well. I've never owned a blog because honestly, I don't think people really care about what I have to say. But, after reading and writing blogs during this first semester, I found it to be quite interesting. Maybe after this semester, I'll even make a personal blog. Just maybe.