Entry # 11 Love Hate

I have a love hate relationship with blogging. This blog project has been an absolute roller coaster ride of emotion ranging from, “I can’t wait to write this blog,” to, “do I really have to write this blog.” For the most part I trudged through the negative emotions and published every topic I wanted to publish. 
At times inspiration was sparse and it took quite a bit of effort to write the topic I chose, but when inspiration struck me the posts were quickly written and the topic was fun. The repetitiveness of the blogs was a bit tedious at times. Typically I began to run out of original ideas on those repetitive posts; feeling as if I was writing the same points over and over again. 
One of the things I learned from this project was to watch the point of view in which I was writing. It is very easy for me to write in second person, as if I were talking to a specific reader. Second person point of view can be beneficial to get a point across to the reader as they are one singular reader not multiple readers. The drawback with this point of view is that the post can seem as if I am lecturing the reader and can be brushed off easily. This point of view also sounds much less formal than third person. In my opinion second person writing is not taken as serious as third person. 
Another part of the project I found to be extremely addicting was the page tracker. In the first few weeks I was obsessed with looking at how many views I had received. The tracker also tells what URL’s each post is being accessed with, how often and from what country. This addition quickly became unhealthy for me because I was constantly checking my views. It is a neat feature, but I had to correct my behavior before it became a bad habit.
 Overall I enjoyed this project because I could write and post pretty much at any time, with a few deadlines here and there. The flexibility of the deadlines became very helpful with my work schedule. Although at times the amount of work that was presented, along with other deadlines, became rather difficult to achieve. The result was semi forced posts due to the constriction of time. Luckily only a few posts reflect this and as a whole I feel that my posts are genuine, thought provoking ideas.
In a world where opinions are being shoved down our throats on a daily basis I can only hope the opinions on this page are fun to read. I hope the reader has taken away some of the insight I have to offer. One thing I would say to anyone who has been following along on this little adventure is to question everything; only in those questions will you find the truth. I hope this has helped the reader see a different way of thinking outside of their own reality. If you have taken away some insight then I am glad that you could join me on this adventure. I hope you loved it.