In My Opinion

When I was told that for an assignment I was going to be blogging, I was imminently turned off.  Right away I started to find reasons why I wouldn't like it.  It was an difficult for me to be pushed out of my comfort zone and open up to people I did not know.  I guess I am a little hard to warm up to maybe even a little stand offish.  So opening up the door for strangers to know me on a personal level and have the opportunity to respond to my blog post left me feeling uneasy.  I did not want to blog, and even if I did I did not want someone whom I did not know giving me there opinion.
 After a very slow start and much scepticism, I was shocked when I began blogging for the fun of it.  I could not believe I was actually enjoying blogging.  I had done a complete 360 from where I had started. On a positive note, I would say that blogging helped my stress level.  Just like writing in a journal, except with spell check.  Though I did not post all of my blogs, many still remain drafts and probably always will.  It was nice to get things off of my chest.  I believe that the most important exercise that I learned form that had the most positive effect on my writing and helped me with my blogging was a blind free writing exercise.  This shoved me in to free writing the right way. 
I also enjoyed blogging in class, given one word and blogging about it.  Just the thought of  how many different ways one word can mean for different people was exciting.  I thought it was helpful having in class discussions on what we had blogged to get a feel for other opinions.  This opened me up to ideas I had not thought of, that in turn helped me broaden my horizon concerning my thought process.  I completely dropped the ball on blogging everyday.  Not so much impossible to blog daily as it was to post what I was blogging about.
My biggest weakness was making my post the expected length.  For me it was much easier for me to just simply state rather than to stretch something out to what I think as being too far.  In conclusion I had a very positive and meaning full experience and there were so many new things learned from this assignment.  My experience blogging experience is as follows; be more open minded, trust you teachers, go out of my comfort zone, appreciate constructive criticism and last but not least blog until you cant blog any more.