Ahh! Blogging?

When I first heard of the blogging assignment for WRIT1122, the first thoughts and images that came to mind were "Oh, those weblog things people write on the internet about random junk" and "I've never even really READ a blog in depth, much less WRITTEN one before." This is what one of the scariest things about writing is for me, is writing something in a style I am unsure about and have never written before. I always wonder, what if this isn't anything like what is expected of me?

Well, like just about everything else in life, "practice is everything." To help out, Dr. Schonberg also provided me with some good examples and links to blogs which have really aided my understanding of blogging over the last week. One main thing I have learned a lot about blogging is that it takes on a much less formal style of writing. There isn't much to it as far as a specific style or organization goes. From what I have seen from numerous blogs on the web, the style's the blogs are written in vary greatly, depending on the topic the blog is about, the style of the blog (whether it is a technical blog, a more personal blog, etc.), and also, they seem to vary from person to person.

After this research I have actually started to take an interest in reading blogs, and hopefully writing plenty of my own as well as even starting up my own blog relating to activities outside writing.

-Nick