So, I know that this is due at 11, but I like to give myself a little pressure to work under. Besides, reading everyone’s blogs was too much fun for me - I had to go back and look at them again this morning and pick out my favorite ones. It’s really cool seeing how much time some people put into these things. Stephanie’s and Lauren’s, for example, were awesome because of all the stuff they put in there. Not just their writings, either. The templates and layouts were very cool, and it’s obvious that they took a lot of time and had fun with this.
That’s not to say that other people didn’t take time on them - everyone did. But some put other writings on their blogs, and it’s cool to see what they wrote about. For those that didn’t (and I’m one of them), it’s still really interesting to see what kind of theme they picked, because I really feel that that may say something about them, especially the people who picked the same themes, like Kerri and Ashley M. Brandon’s theme really caught my attention because it was so drastic. The fire is actually a really powerful symbol of the writing process for me, and it’s really fun to see that someone incorporated it. I would have, but it wouldn’t mesh well with the whole peaceful elves thing I’ve got going here.
I think, though, that having access to others blogs was the most valuable to me because I got to read all the papers throughout the semester, even if I didn’t get to see them in workshops. Even if I did get to see the draft, the final paper was so different from the draft that I was amazed at where it could, and did, go in some cases. Joey’s and Dave’s papers were certainly among the highlights of the ones I read, and without the blogs, I definitely wouldn’t have gotten the chance to, so it that way it helped, too.
On the whole, I think that this experience was very helpful to some. Even though it wasn’t to others (Kristin), I think that it gave them insight into what kind of writers they are, even if it is simply a preference for pen and paper over computers. For me… but you’ll read about that in my other post. 
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