What Will I Blog About?

For my blogs, I plan on writing about numerous subjects. I want to write about things that I use or activities I do on an average day of the week or weekend. School is probably going to be a major topic because most of my life revolves around it. I wake up early to get ready for school. I talk and fool around with my friends at school. And even when I get home, I have to do work for school. Other topics that I will most likely write about will be music and movies. When writing about movies, I will share my opinions about different genres and favorites that I have enjoyed watching for many years. This might apply to my thoughts on music as well. Ever since my cousin and father had enlightened me to the world of rock and metal, my view on music has changed quite a bit.
This year, I hope to improve my writing in one major way. I really want to find my own individual style. In sixth and seventh grade, I had teachers that gave the class handouts on formats they wanted their students’ essays to look like. I got so use to following and relying on the formats that it almost became second-nature to look at the handouts the whole time I wrote any document. Then, in eighth grade, I had a teacher that objected to that form of writing. He made us write final drafts only one paragraph long almost every other night. He disliked the “filler” sentences and words that were there only so the students could reach the assignments minimal length. For his essays he wanted us to explain everything because it is better to leave the reader well-informed rather than completely lost. He would always say, “In my class, two plus two equals five as long as you can explain it.” Since people see things in different way, this caused group discussions to have multiple answers to just a single question that was brought up. I was finally starting to understand writing. But, that was a while ago, and I haven’t written as much ever since then. In ninth grade other classes gave me more homework than English class, so I might be a little rusty. I just hope that I can try to improve on interpreting and explaining the text again.