Week 8 Progress

I am content with my progress thus far into the semester, as I feel like assignments such as the story revisions help me not only improve my writing and creative thoughts, but also my grammar and overall syntax that is extremely useful for improving since it is applicable everywhere. I think I am most proud of my first story that has been revised multiple times now. I feel like I have established a secure weekly schedule of knowing when to do assignments and not letting them sneak past me very often, or at all. I always do them at night as I feel like these assignments are a good way to unwind.

I like class assignments like these, where I am reflecting on my semester. I can get a good understanding of how it going by writing my thoughts down as such. I have used some of the extra credit assignments as well, but I save them usually for the week I have missed an assignment. I have done a few assignments out of interest of the topics of those extra credit assignments, though. I feel like in terms of my blog and my website, I have become more and more creative throughout the semester by developing and building it more and more.

As of now, I would like to hope that I will get more creative throughout the semester. Other than that, I do not have any concrete things I would like to change. Pitfalls such as not completing the assignment's requirements in their entirety because I did not read the instructions well enough are what I want to avoid. I hope I can try to incorporate newer, less modern writing styles and themes in my writing in future assignments. I might add more images and new styles to by blog and website in the near future to improve it and reflect my personality and writing more!

Reflecting throughout the semester

Week 8 Comments and Feedback

I think the comments I am getting are wonderful! Normally, when students are assigned to give feedback to other students, it's just to get it done and sometimes it does not have real value. I feel like in this course, however, since it's not about discussion posts, but rather stories and introduction posts, there is more interest from student to student. This means there is genuine criticism from my peers, and it really helps me improve and learn a lot about new people. This goes the same for my feedback out, where I actually have an interest in giving feedback, so I give much more genuine feedback.

I think the blog set up is really great. I can always go back to someone's blog if I liked their story or wanted to get to know them better through their discussion posts; if I wanted to keep reading their stories if I liked their writing, I could easily go back. It is really helpful with them having introduction posts, as well, as it lets me get to know much more about them in a straightforward fashion instead of strictly through their writing alone.

Source

This image is especially important to me because I have a bad problem of letting my mistakes get to me, and also not focusing on the things I did right and improving them. A saying I have started to go by that helps me combat this is "it doesn't matter how hard you hit, but how hard you get hit and keep going." Hopefully I can better myself through my writing as well as my personal self and not let them negative thoughts sit in my head.

Week 8 Reading and Writing

I am enjoying the reading and writing assignments. I am particularly happy about how they give me a lot of freedom to write about what I want; for example, even though we have required readings of a particular piece, there are assignments that allow me to create my own story with my own imagination just based on those assigned readings. I like my blog and my website, my website a little more than my blog because of the design aspects, but I like how easy it is to change blogger, so I am content most of the time! I've made a lot of grammatical errors that I do not usually make in my story posts so I want to improve on that, especially proofreading, but I am happy with my content. I think my biggest accomplishment is yet to come, but I predict it would be when I finish entirely revising one of my stories and it gets a lot of both good critical and praising feedback My favorite reading thus far has been the Jataka tales. My reading notes are the entire basis of my story writing, so yes, ver helpful and very important. I learn new reading strategies based on the assignments every week.

The Story of Rama

Favorite Image

I like the image because it is very encapsulating of one of my favorite parts of the Ramayana series.

I want to make sure I get the best of all the reading experiences, so I want to read every story of another classmate's as if I am proofreading my own for a grade, and to really capture every aspect of it. The same goes for the assigned readings.