Monday, May 14, 2012

How does my blog differ from my creative writing prompts? Well, you can say that the creative writing prompts were more forced. Do this, do that, write about this starting with this sentence, etc. With my blog, I can write about anything that my heart desires, whether it be about my lost alligator or my cheering team. It's not as structured and I believe that I like that a lot more. I like being able to span out my thoughts and have somebody actually read it. I would always have the hardest time trying to think about what I was going to write about, where I was going to go with a creative writing prompt and how I was even going to start it. Now I still have those troubles sometimes but not nearly as great as I did with creative writing.

How does my comments I leave people on their blogs differ from my comments on creative writing prompts? Well, on creative writing prompts, I would leave constructive criticism. "Fix your punctuation", "watch your run on sentences", "watch out for those pesky adverbs", etc. In my blog comments, I tell people what I like about their posts, rather than what they should fix. I tell them when a story is really cute, or really sad and how it makes me feel while reading it.

I guess you can say that in some aspects, my blogging and creative writing are similar like not knowing exactly where to go with something, but over all, it is generally way different.

2 comments:

  1. I feel you. Creative writing was much more structured than blogging. It almost felt like you were trapped inside a box: introduction, three body paragraphs, conclusion. Blogging allows you to do whatever the heck you want, without any requirements whatsoever. However, I do not appreciate when you post ugly photos of me. Hahaha.

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  2. Exactly! It's much more freedom and choice to do whatever. (: & as for the photo, I still have the photo of your alien bump-it... need I say more? You're beautiful no matter what. ***** McGuire <3

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