Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I’m talking about my latest project “Write Stuff,” where we focused on writing stuff, but more importantly, we learned about writing like ourselves, with our voice. So that for our final product our teachers could identify who wrote what article without a authors name on them.

We wanted to make something to show who we are with text. We learned that our voices are totally unique and can shape who we are, even in writing. Writing is just a way to use that unique voice, a way to carve out our identity in a world where machines can copy us but can’t truly create like we can. This project was all about finding that voice, fine-tuning it, and learning how to use it.

😔Drafting😁:

We made a ton of drafts of our final project until we got something that was good enough, which I personally found pretty interesting at the start, because if the whole point is to sound like yourself, how can you mess up??? But as we kept rewriting, I realized just how hard it can be to make something that sounds like you but also says everything you want to say in a legible way. Here’s what I came up with for my final product, honestly, I’m really happy with it.

🕺Stay With Me💃:

I think the thing that stuck with me the most on how to use my voice was to use words how I use them, not just how they should be used. Hopefully, you can see that in my current writing, but more importantly, in my final product piece.

Another helpful skill I got from this project was reading my work out loud as I make it, which can really help me come up with ideas, but also can help me sound more like I do in real life. So that my teachers and other readers know its me.

(Which sometimes can be a good or bad thing):

🥀Growing From Mistakes🌹:

I think something I could’ve improved on during this whole project is my mindset when we were going into the project at the start. I think I unfairly set a negative idea of how the project would go when I heard that it would be about writing, which made me care a bit less at the start. This was totally the wrong thing to do because now that I’m done, I can say that I had a ton of fun and would totally do the project again. Sadly, I can’t do it again, so instead, I’ll make sure to try and stay positive when going into a new project in the future.