A blog about blogs

 Upon starting this course I had not previously kept any kind of blog, so the concept was definitely a bit overwhelming at first. Not because of the writing required, as that is usually the easy part, and most blogs are on topics of our choosing and the others are on topics that are relevant to what we are doing in class; but the trouble, I find, is writing something that you feel confident on placing on the Internet for any and everyone to see, read, and judge. Coming in as a fairly confident writer, I did not expect that the blog entries would give me any problems, but I could not have been more wrong..  The first blog was to be on a topic of our choice, a challenge unto itself, what topic should I chose? What will be an interesting topic that I know enough about to write about and that my peers will also find interesting and worthy of reading? So I thought, I read some other blogs to get an idea of what other people were writing about and that is when I discovered that I was spending too much time thinking about what I wanted to write instead of just writing it. I felt that the point of the blog was being missed by the attempt to write something that was going to satisfy the reader(s). The proper way to go about it would be to sit down, read the prompt, if any, and then just write, not for the people who may or may not eventually read the post, but for yourself. That is what I found to be the most important thing to remember throughout this process. I have found this in other students writings as well, as the topics that seem to draw the most attention are those on topics that may seem, at first, only relevant or important to those involved.