If you’ve been around my way for a bit, then you may already know 🙂
To keep it short, I blog because I love writing. I enjoy expressing myself and sometimes I have a lot to say and don’t have the in-person audience to hear me and actually listen. Writing is therapeutic and challenging and fun. People actually read! And the interactions with my readers bring a whole ‘notha delicious layer to blogging.
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Blogging for me begin as away to help students be creative without being afraid to speak on any subject. They created their blogs for one semester and I keep going.
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That is a very cool idea: I encouraged my students to keep math journals, but I never thought of just expressing.
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Beautiful.
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I blog because I want all of that free work I did as a teacher to maybe actually be of use to other people, and also because I feel a need to write about the long-term structures that we often seem to forget need attention and support.
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You are amazing! I remember the teachers that encouraged me and left a big impact. Teachers are invaluable! We all need to treat you like military members and thank you for your service🙏🏾
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You are also amazing, Kelley! Thank you for inspiring me to keep giving what I can give.
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xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Ayyyyyeee! I blog really, for many of the same reasons you mentioned, Kelley. Plus, it’s fun too!
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Heeyyyyy Tre! It’s definitely fun!
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I don’t blog as much as I used, but when I do..I do it because I just wanna share without being interrupted if I was “talking” about it in person. Lol
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HA! Or if the recipient took it all the way left from what you actually meant 🙄
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For me, it was semi by accident. Started with a Writing 101 challenge where I loved the interaction and still talk with the same blogging friends. And I simply continued. But I write/blog for the same reasons as you.
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Oh wow! Did you write at all prior? Were the fiction pieces born after/from this?!
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Actually I started writing as a kid. It was basically my only outlet as a kid of strict immigrant parents. The naysayers got to be too much for me and I gave up writing but not before I sent a query with 3 chapters off to a few agents..an anecdote for another time!
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yessssssssss
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You got me at therapeutic, Kelley. The way I feel cleansed after writing gives this weird high.
It sounds weird when you say it to someone who doesn’t write; but I think other writers get it.
Personally, I’ve found writing (especially poetry) improves my memory. Each piece is exploring an idea or thought that I link to a particular title. Whenever Im in a conversation I can easily recall associated topics by recalling the title of that piece.
Crazy how the mind works.
Just saw you’re taking part in the blogging challenge. Really came back with a bang 🔥 excited to see what you have in store for us ⭐️
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Oh definitely. Writing clears the busy writer’s mind! It really does exercising the brain.
I need to hear more about your experience with poetry in particular improving memory. I write everything down which definitely helps with memory and affirmations and staying on task(to-do lists), but I never recognized a difference that poetry makes.
And I never left LOL! I’m back with more of a tap than a bang. I’m just.. trying.
Thanks for being here 🙂
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