Chapter 2 of Writing About Literature in the Digital Age was one that stuck out to me like the iconic bolts jutting from movie-Frankenstein's neck (I'm sorry, I can't help but use Frankenstein references now). This chapter, in particular the subsections of Blogging Benefit: Process over Product and Writing More, connected with me. Like any other student, I tend to write my papers all in one go, usually at ridiculous hours of the night, hoping that my feverish brain will produce some viable content. It's an uncomfortable process. It's a dreaded process. Very few want to write long papers on things that do not interest them. However, with blogging, one can receive "a comfort level, a habit-- even an identity as a writer."* The true benefit from this is the blog posts, once added up, "create an ample supply of less developed ideas that can readily become more developed:" This especially struck a chord with me, considering my weakness with underdeveloped ideas. In addition, the "process- rather than product- oriented" way of writing is intriguing to me, seeing that I'm always reaching to that fill up that cursed last page assigned, rather than focusing on the ideas that go into the paper. I'm excited to use electronic media to access and toy with different ideas.
*All quotes come from Writing About Literature in the Digital Age by Gideon Burton et. al.
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