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Homework answers / question archive / assignment for this week in Crafting the Personal Essay is the following: Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay" Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn" General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post
assignment for this week in Crafting the Personal Essay is the following:
General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post. You may write your primary post and reply in either order. One post is due Thursday, and one is due by Sunday. Each post is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points.
To ensure a cordial style, please remember to greet your classmates and sign your name in your posts.
In Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay," Dinty W. Moore writes about the benefits and expectations of keeping a blog, an online, open-access medium for writing on a topic of interest. He emphasizes the importance of keeping a regular schedule of writing, and reaching out to readers with topics of real interest to them (208-213). And in Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn," Moore discusses some qualities writers need to have in order to publish their work, including a real enjoyment of writing, being familiar with the magazines or other publications one is submitting work to, and having persistence in the face of rejection (226-233).
After reading Chapters 20 and 23, please write about an experience you've had with blogging or publishing your work to a wider audience, whether in a blog, in print, or another medium.
Publishing in the context of this discussion topic means anything you've written and presented to a wider (more than classroom-sized, ideally) audience, either in print or digital form.
For example, maybe when you were seven years old, you published a poem in your elementary school newsletter. Or maybe you keep a food blog, and you publish occasional entries about recipes and cooking strategies on this blog. You may publish Tweets or Facebook posts about news or family events.
Or (drawing from an example above) maybe you've published a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and saved a copy of it on your fridge!
If blogging or publishing is something you have yet to experience, please feel free to write about a blogging- or publishing-related experience you might look forward to in your future.
Citing your source(s): Please include in your post at least one specific reference to Chapter 20 and/or Chapter 23. Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.
This week's discussion was a little hard to connect with personally, mainly because I have no intentions of pursuing a career in which writing is my job, so I don't have any previous experience with publication or plan to in the future. I do however hope to move up in my current job which, in the future may require me to have some decent writing skills which I believe this course has helped me improve on. This weeks chapter revolves around blogging which was also very interesting to read about. In chapter 20 of the textbook, Moore covers the topic of blogging, mentioning how blogging is slightly different than a personal essay. “Combine discrete sensibilities with endless possibilities of meaning and connection and extremes of playfulness and flexibility, and you are pretty accurately describing what some of the best bloggers do” (Moore, Ch. 20). Blogging doesn't have to be done for a reason regarding a career choice, it could be a hobby that passes time on the side. My sister and her friends just graduated college and plan to travel with work visas for an entire year. While doing so, they plan to keep up a blog for family and friends to stay up to date on their experiences, which is something I look forward to reading.
Although I do not plan to incorporate recreational writing into my future, I am however not closed off to the idea of writing in a blog for myself. Even if nobody reads it, writing can be many things to different people, but I have noticed that the time I have spent writing about my own personal life has been somewhat of a stress reliever for me, and I can only imagine a weekly blog would have the same effect.
