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Especially when I talk about stuff that actually matters. For example my blog about taking the N-word out of Huck Finn called "Neglect". I must admit that it is one of the few blogs where I talk about a hot topic in today's society, but the blog entry is so bromidic and stodgy. Yes I have a view on this topic, but I am not passionate about it, therefore my word choices are about as spicy as a saltine cracker. In "My Blog: A Platitude" I said that I should try to focus more on topics I care about because it makes my writing stronger. But the fact of life is that I'm going to have to write about topics I could care less about, but I still need to make them entertaining. So, I believe I have found my thing to work on this next quarter.
Another thing I struggled with was being able to keep my voice but still get my "important" point across. My voice in writing is generally comedic, which can be a gnarly thing or an abominable thing. Probably my worst blog entry was "How to Spot an Impostor", which only talks about how I am untrustworthy (which, trust me, does not further society). In it I sound like I try to hard to be funny, which pretty much means that it was not funny. It's just a heinous blog post, 'nuff said. But when I do not put in humor, such as with my post "It Comes With Time", it still ends up wretched. Another thing I need to work on is to find the a nice in between with humor and intellect.
Which leads me to the blog that I would like to be graded, titled "Meh". This blog is both humorous but insightful at the same time. This post makes me feel like a modern artist. Each person who comments see's something different within the post. Weather it is just me making fun of the OED, commenting on modern day slang, or talking about how we don't just communicate with words, everyone seems to have a slightly different take. And I like that, I'm making people think.
Vocabular-iffic!
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