Julia’s Blog

Blog #2

It’s Julia! I’m here with another blog. Todays blog will be about how writing can intertwine with identity.

I do believe that these two aspects combine with each other. Someones identity is their beliefs, personality, and whatever else makes up that person’s persona. A persons writing can tell a lot about them. With the word choices, how they develop their sentences, and the flow and rhythm of their writing. Simply reading their blogs, you can find very important detail about that person.

The introduction of Project Runway, the styles these designers were showing, they almost all had a story about why and what their clothes look like. My favorite was the African inspired designer because she simply, is from Africa. Using the knowledge she knows and is designing beautiful art work in clothes. Clothes in this scenario is the writing we are doing. Their identities- their beliefs, they’re intertwining in their clothing. We can see where they came from, where they get their inspiration from, what kind of individual they are.

Overall, identity and writing go hand in hand with one another simply because you can’t have a writing without an identity. That’s the strongest aspect a person has as an author, in my opinion.

What is Writing?

Hello guys, it’s Julia! I’m here to write my first blog. Todays topic will be about writing. What is writing and what does it look like. With this topic I’ll be basing it off personal experiences and my beliefs about it.

Writing to me is what the individual feels. Whether it be emotional, experiences, funny, or anything they feel in them to write. I personally like to write when I’m feeling down. Writing your emotions out on paper I feel like will help you discover what you’re actually feeling. The rough draft is everything just sprawled out and you can see what it is you’re going through.

Writing to me looks like a scattered mess of various emotional words on paper. It’s sentences turned into paragraphs turned into essays. Writing looks like words stacked on words. It’s a beautiful piece of work displayed for people to put out there to read or keep it to themselves and re- read as days go by. I love the look of words on a paper filling the entire page.

Overall, writing is the thoughts of someone who writes their own on paper. All the emotions, thoughts, and feelings of an individual. Writing can heal inside and throughout the body. It definitely relives a lot when you process it all. It’s one of my favorite things to do when I need to just sit down and calm down.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.