Tag: blogging

Rounding the Corner

All this week I’ve been talking about my blogging goals. Now it’s time to take those goals and turn them into ideas for the rest of my blog posts.

The biggest goal I’ve noted so far is that I want and need to get more experience writing regularly about my own interests. Also, I want to make sure I choose something that will lend its hand to incorporating more media.To achieve that, I have two ideas that I’ll explain here.

The first one is to use this blog as a way to further explore my deep love of poetry. I’m one of those poets who tends to write only when they are inspired, but I would love to train myself to write poetry more regularly. I was thinking that I could write a couple of poems a week on here and include either a reflection or how I planned to revise them. That checks the boxes of both being interesting to me and the bonus of practicing my poetry skills.

From Google Images

The second possibility is blogging my personal reviews of anime I want to watch. With isolation making time feel like it no longer exists, I can watch more of the anime on my list. I could watch them and publish my (very opinionated) reviews of either individual episodes or seasons. Don’t underestimate my ability to watch a whole season in a week.

Tune it next week to find out which one I stick with!

Tags anime, anime reviews, bingewatching, blogging, blogging goals, my blog, poet, poetry

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Staying the Course

Continuing the thread of talking about my blogging goals, I want to put up a little blurb about some possible ways blogging could help me career-wise.

This summer, I’m planning (Corona Craziness aside) to get involved with Rowan’s chapter of The Odyssey Online, a publication where members write and put out an article each week about something they are interested in. I’ve never had much practice publishing articles based on my own interests regularly, but guess what–this blog fits that bill. I can get loads of practice improving in an area of writing that for me, has been rather difficult so far. I’m excited about that possibility–blogging to me is a unique genre because it combines my perspective on my interests with those of other people, and I value myriad perspectives.

I also think that both this blog and The Odyssey Online will help enrich my experience when I add a second concentration, Publishing and Writing for the Public, to my major. I think that immersing myself in new, more challenging types of writing and getting experience writing for other people instead of myself will really benefit me after I graduate and (hopefully!) get a job in higher education.

See you on Saturday for more on my blogging goals!

Tags blogging, blogging goals, career, meaningful blogging, my blog, The Odyssey Online, writing for the public

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Taking a Turn

In light of our newly virtual semester, instead of using this blog just for fact checks, I will be expanding my blogging experience by exploring my blogging goals and using them to decide on the thread of my posts for the rest of this semester.

In this first post after moving online, I want to list my blogging goals: what I plan to give and get out of blogging this semester.

I want to use this opportunity to get better at creating ideas and content for a blog, as I transition into adding a second concentration onto my major and learning more about editing and publishing.

In the past, I’ve never really understood why people enjoy blogging and I never read a lot of blogs. I blogged for classes, but I was required to write about certain things and my interest in blogging sank even lower. However, with the chance to write about something more tailored to my interests, I may decide to start a blog of my own after this if I can discover a niche.

Another of my goals is to discover how blogging could benefit me. Will it help my resume? Give me a place to express myself? Broaden and strengthen my writing ability?

I am still doing this for a class, so I want to make sure that my experimental blog posts receive good grades, but more importantly I want to find a way to make sure that this benefits me in the long run.

Later this week I will put up two more blog posts discussing my blogging goals in more detail!

Tags blogging, blogging goals, meaningful blogging, online classes, virtual learning, virtual semester