Week 8 Comments and Feedback

The comments and feedback that I have been receiving have been for the most part have been fairly helpful. I think the best feedback has been the critical feedback. I like taking the feedback from people that criticizes my stories and turning it into a better story. I feel that I respond best to that kind of feedback. As for my feedback, I feel that I have given some really good feedback. I try to start off with some positive feedback that emphasizes the good pieces of the story, and then I add one or two things that I believe would help improve the story. After that I reinforce the feedback by adding more positives. While reading my classmates stories I consider the styles of writing that they are using and learn new things to maybe try in my writing. I believe that the introductions to others blogs have been fun to read because you get a little insight of who your classmates are. I do not think that I am fully happy with my layout on my Portfolio at the moment but I am happy with my blog posts!
Looking forward I think that I am going to try and be more attentive to the small details in others stories because those are just as important as the other parts of the story. I think that I am going to change the look of my portfolio, just the theme and colors. Other than that I think that I'm satisfied with the blog as of right now.

Listening actively is Important to me

This photo is the one that really stood out to me because actively listening is something that I focus on when having a conversation with someone or reading their writing. Just something that I hold as a high standard of others.

Week 8 Reading and Writing

The reading and writing assignments overall are working well for me, sometimes they can be stressful because of everything going on but I usually manage to get them done. My favorite reading so far has been the Sinbad reading. I really enjoyed those stories and I loved how they were all linked together. The reading notes help me a little with my story posts but they are not the most helpful thing. The way my mind works is that I will have a great idea one minute then the next minute I will overrule my previous idea with another one. Needless to say, it is very difficult to keep on one idea before I decide to write my story. So far I am really happy with my class project. My favorite thing about it so far is the First story that I put on there. Reaping Feared Demons is great because I put a lot of thought into writing that story and spent a lot of time revising it as well. I really hope I will find a new story to write about soon because I think that having a portfolio full of great stories is really important.

This photo Is provided by Pexels

This is my favorite photo that I have used all semester, not only because it is part of my favorite story, but also because it is such a dark and mysterious photo. It really helps illustrate what I wanted Alex the Reaper to look like in my story.

I think looking forward I would like to focus more on creating stories more from my own imagination rather than using storybook details. I would like to maybe take the main idea of the story and really change it up a lot to make it a lot of my own story. I think this will make me feel like I have accomplished more in this class this semester!