Using a blog to record my writing and supposedly /optionally take over my journal entries has been an intersting experience and I've discovered some pros and cons to this new, more technologically advanced method of writing.
The positive aspects of using the blogs and the wikispace is that I can read what other people write about, thus inspiring some ideas in myself, which is important because I am not used to writing so much about so many different (and often random) things. It is also useful because you are able to leave comments on people's blogs and receive them on your own writing, which can inspire more ideas or better writing on existing pieces. It is also good because it forces you to write better and to proofread everything, which I don't necessarily do when completing a handwritten journal entry. Usually when I write in the journal it is very fast and I generally try simply to follow my thought process in writing as best and fast as I can. On the blog I feel more need to actually strucure the writing and make it readable, since it will be reaching a much wider audinece than my journal ever has or will.
The bad side, and this, mind you, is a very bad side, is that it promotes PROCRASTINATION. This is bad because I've already developed the horrible tendency to be lazy and procrastinate and it's gotten worse as the second semester of my senior year has progressed. But using the blog to do all my english homework is bad because it means that I am connected to the interent. WHich means that I am logged onto AIM and having engaging conversations with several people, am checking my emails and the ever addictive facebook for any comments that make me feel important and popular. it means that instead of focusing on making new posts on my blog or reading my classmates writing, I am watching videos on youtube and downloading new music off itunes, that I am playing solitare and minesweeper rather than doing my homework.
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