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Monday, April 13, 2015
Journal Review Blog
This was a free writing activity in which we had to make at least five entry's a week for eight weeks with a set of simple rules which were; Don't cross-out, don't worry about spelling, punctuation and grammar, don't get logical, go for the jugular and finally keep you're hand moving. At the end of this activity I had completed 46 entrees. My writing changed a little during this period. At first i could not avoid getting logical with the things that i was writing because that's just me and it was hard breaking that habit. About half way into the activities the change was more appreciable. With regards to grammar I have never been very strict about it and it was really easy not thinking about it. Also with every session I noticed that I became more structured with the way I wrote like I adapted to writing without lines. Writing the first though was the most inconsistent thing for me because that was dependant on the type of thought and how i felt in that particular moment. On January 30, 2015 I made an entry in which i talked about what happened to me the night before. I started explaining the environment and the circumstances of the situation and half way I had arrived to what would be the climax of the story. Then after that i was expressing how i felt about what I just explained. This activity was of much self enrichment, I as wrote this things I realize that i am a very emotional person and also a sensitive one because everything that happened in my surroundings had an impact in the way I felt. Also as a writer I learned that I am very structured even when i am traing not to be so, and that's reflects a lot about me and who I am. As a puertorrican I learned that I am very proud of my culture but very angry towards my people or at least some of them. This activity makes me discover the traveler inside me after describing the things I saw in many of my entrees I understood that I enjoy looking at things and traing to understand their function in their surroundings.
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I love how you put a picture of a blank page and say that the hardest thing was beginning to write. That is such a simple statement, yet I believe it's one of the biggest problems. It reminds me of writer's block, which is what I believe you're implying in your writing with this post. I believe you found this hard at first because you (just like most of us--students) were taught that to write you have to have something very structured (a specific idea). Then, as you developed your journal writing, you found out that writing freely actually removed that pressure to write something specific and structured which then also removed your writer's block.
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