Week 8 Reading and Writing

I'm pretty happy with the way my blog looks. I know it's not the showiest or flashiest but I think that it's simple and straightforward. Anyone who visits it can find anything they're looking for. If I knew how to make it showier and flashier, maybe I would. But I'd rather put more effort into my writing, and as long as my stories are easy to find and come across clearly on the page, I'm a happy camper. My project website is more aesthetically pleasing to me, but I found that making the Google sites was easier to customize and had more options. It's really user-friendly, and I feel like a tech genius for putting in my comment wall buttons and the links to the original stories. I'm very please with my website.

I think that the tone of my Reading Notes varies from subject to subject, but when I reread my notes, I can hear my own voice in each post. In some, I'm more serious and I use a sophisticated vocabulary to describe my reactions to the readings; in others, I've written my thoughts and opinions in a very casual way, almost like transcribing a conversation I'd have with a friend if I were telling them about this course. I don't really know which way is best, and it all depends on how I feel, the subject matter, the way in which the subject matter was presented to me. But I think that, overall, each Reading Notes post has information and personality, and they've helped me focus on what to write and how.

Which brings me to my Storytelling posts. I'm pretty proud of a lot of my stories, I hope that doesn't seem arrogant. I really liked writing The Making of Galatea, which was the story of Pygmalion's statue from her perspective. It was so fun thinking about all the things that make us alive, and all the sense with which we get to know the world around us. I love how it turned out. I'm also pretty proud of my Moon story, I liked that I alluded to vitiligo, that the girl is empowered and that the boy who loves her supports her rather than exerts power over her, and that it is an etiological myth--meaning that it explains the origins of a natural phenomenon. I also like my story about Isis and Osiris, and I really like how the continuation of that story played out on my project site. It was really difficult to narrow down the story, to fix her tone, and to describe the events with detail and emotion (since the original myth just kind of lists events). I went through about five different drafts, longer and shorter, more or less detail, and finally I am satisfied with teh result. 

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This class has really been an exercise in personal examination, because I have to learn when to stop, when to change, when to start over. And I'm a really stubborn person, I want to believe that I've done everything right the first time. But when I've written something that isn't quite right, and I admit it to myself and fix it, it always turns out better. It's a good lesson to learn.