Last blog

Last blog
I can't believe this is number 65 of 65. The last few days as I've been running to the end of this blog I've been thinking of so many new ideas and things I wished I had written about. I know it sounds crazy I wish I had more time, because I have so many things I'd like to say. I would've enjoyed writing the blogs a lot more if it was based on words total words over the course of the semester so I could've told stories in their entirety instead of cutting them off at 500 words. In the beginning my stories often ran over so I can easily say I've exceeded the 32,500 words that would've been expected for the semester. In fact as I look back I wonder where all the time has gone. I've wanted to write a book for many years and I thought the English class would be a good way to get the experience and improve my writing skills. What I found instead is just changing the style and it can be very frustrating to try to teach an old dog new tricks. I'm so used to writing in the military style or from the aspect of writing speeches for giving training, where persuasion, salesmanship and sometimes even humor is part of the mix. In fact if I had to say so I'd say the blogs are probably my favorite part of the class, because I don't have focus on the technicalities, I just tell the story and have fun doing it. If there was more time I would spend more time on each blog to ensure that they are the best that I could produce. But if the rate of one a day it's like assembly line production, just punch another one outing keep on moving. I really don't think it helps to improve my writing skills, in fact it probably is doing more to degrade them, but instead causing me not to spend the time to make the corrections. Maybe that's why it’s seems more difficult to write the papers. If there was more time to hone your skills when writing the blogs, who knows, maybe the average person isn't interested in taking the time to improve their writing skills, after all that's what texting is all about shortcuts. I'm not in the English class because I have to be I'm there because I wanted to be. I was hoping for a challenge in a lot of ways it was. I'd like to think I've improved but I really can't see the evidence of that. It seems the more someone teaches me to put commas and colons in the paragraph the more confused I get and the more I add or delete depending on the day of the week. It seems like the hard and fast rules are not hard or fast and change from person to person. Sometimes they've even day to day if not I guess it's just me because I haven't got the hang of it.
Signing off last blog.