The Dull Blade

I remember many times as a young child when I was complimented on different works I had written. I also remember deciding that I would be a writer, but avoiding writing as a real profession due to other people’s input. This lead me to a very weak talent in the art of composing written text. I am now attempting to reacquire lost skills and to build on those reacquired skills.

The reason that I remember this the most is that I had to co-create this blog that you are now reading for a classroom assignment, and many people may understand that the topic and layout of this blog was rushed. This may lead to an acceptance of this blog not being quite up to par, but we (the authors of this blog) may have created a better blog if we had the time to truly formulate different ideas and experiment with those ideas to see where they lead.

Soon, this module of this class will be over, and it may not be much longer after that that this blog is deleted. The sad part of this whole ordeal is that we could’ve have done much more with the blog if we had more time. We named this blog after the famous Jabberwocky poem that many of you are probably familiar with. Unfortunately, we did not live up to the name of the poem; although, we never really set our expectations that high.

One of the ideas that I had wished to begin was a “round robin” story (I’m sure there are other terms for this). Each of us would write part of a story which would be continued by the next person to post. Unfortunately, we were unable to fully set this plan into motion. Maybe, we just didn’t have the time to set aside for writing such pieces of fiction (factual and opinion actually seems easier), or maybe, we just didn’t have any ideas. I’ll admit the story that I began was atrocious, but it was my hope that the next author would revise or redo the whole story. I just put out an idea that I hoped would possibly stimulate some work within our field.

I think that collaborative stories are an actual interesting topic to explore more in depth with the medium of the internet, but this exploration will have to be outside the class that this blog was created for.

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