So far this blog experience has affected my writing overall in all categories. I think about my writing much differently. I also read things differently. I feel like through these posts and other essays I have noticed that writing can be more like a conversation rather than purely academic. I like it.
My professor has taught me that it is more important to get your point across well than to camouflage your argument with fancy words. So that is what I have started to do, write to an audience like I am talking to my peers. It is a simple form of communication and I feel like I can get my point across better because it is how I normally talk. But it is a comfortable way of communication.
Creating this blog has allowed me to express what I want to say, how I want to say it. It means I do not have to carry an academic filter in my writing and that is something that I really enjoy. It is more organic writing and has allowed me to see the enjoyable side of writing more. I have never been much of a writer, probably because I always do it in school and I have never been much of a student. But this blog is a little different because it does not feel like writing. It feels like a conversation. It is a one sided conversation, but a conversation nonetheless.