Project 1 Analysis

As far as I know my project went fairly well. I did what I had to do. Followed instructions. Completed the assignment and wrote about two things I like to talk about; music and comics. My two biggest struggles that I had were getting started and writing for this genre. I never really had the motivation to get this assignment started. Yes I knew that I had to finish it and turn it all in on time, but I procrastinated until the very last second which may have affected my writing but without any motivation to begin this project I did not feel the need to begin until right before the due date. Also, writing reviews for me is actually a little more...not necessarily challenging since I can complete the task without trouble as long as I know about what I am reviewing but it is not the genre I prefer to write. Like I said in my first blog post I much rather to take a creative approach to my writing than having a ridged structure than I am supposed to follow. I used to work at my high school's radio station and had an on-air show with my brother one year and a solo one the next. On those shows the topics would normally revolve around comics and/or music. Music especially would be easy to talk about since you could play the song or artist you wanted to talk about and discuss the elements of the song of which your listeners just heard. However, with a review, you have no idea if your reader heard that album or song that you are trying to review. It is a crap shoot. Hopefully you write well enough to make the reader want to go out and listen to that album but it is a whole new dynamic when talking passionately about something your audience just heard as opposed to something they may or may not have heard recently. Maybe it is because I have become a better speaker than writer over my years of radio, debate team and theater that I have trouble with writing down my true feelings about something without being able to freely write my thoughts. But I digress, I think next project I should probably start my writing process a little earlier than I did with this one so I can hopefully write a better paper. Also, I think I am going to have either a different person read my paper or have multiple people read my project so I get more than a quick format fix suggestion from my peer review. If I'm supposed to reach a regional level of revision I am going to need to have someone say there are more things wrong than just the format for a paper that I pretentiously believe to be pretty much perfect.