Assessment Time!!

I feel that an assessment of my blog is in ... I don't know the word for here.  Point is, I think it is time for my blog to be assessed.  I'm going to assess it on my own.  However, I do know one or two people read it and BOTH of you are welcome to comment.  Well, ok.  Anyone can comment.  I don't really care.

I've decided that it is as boring as a ... boring as a ...  I'm really having a hard time knowing what it's as boring as because I can't think of anything as boring as my blog...  That's probably not good.  So, boring is bad as far as readership goes, but I'm not really in this for the readership.  It's not like I'm hoping to get famous by "blogging."  (Seriously, I want to know where the word "blog" REALLY came from... maybe I'll blog about it later).  

However, it has gotten me to write.  Granted it's almost always a free-write, so full of grammar and spelling and other such typing issues.  But, for the most part, I think it's been good for me - I think my typing speed has even gone up (which is good since I'd dropped to about 100WPM).  It seems as though I've gotten better at being able to create conversations in my writing.  I have struggled a lot with utilizing dialogue in my writing and I have written several "pieces" in my blogs that involve dialogue.  I already know I can do scene pretty ok.  So now I can at least create dialogue.  Now I gotta learn how to mix the two.  I think maybe I can.

And I have to say that I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to figure dialogue out with the perplexation that is my blog.  So, I think that blogging has been well-worth my time since at some point in my life, I'd like to actually be a writer.  It'd be awesome to be a writer with a good reputation.

Because of the nature of this assessment that I have performed on my own craft, I do not feel that it deserves a letter grade.  I think it boils down to this: it has helped me and bored others.  

Score.  I think that was probably the point in some regard.  It is obvious that I'm not truly a good writer, we knew I'd be boring, and the true point was to get me writing.  

Blog: successful.