Commenting Review Week

I feel like the comments actually allow more of a connection than most online classes allow for.  Actually, I think I’ve talked to more people through these comments than I do in my actual classes.
I really enjoy the comments that actually tell me what I did wrong or have ideas on how to improve my writing.
When I’m writing short comments I try to give general revision ideas. When I’m writing longer comments I go into detail and give specific examples.
I write my comments as I go along reading.  It helps me remember what I did/didn’t like in a story.

Any comments with constructive criticism really help me out. The comments you make are very detailed and actually help a lot.

(Pun from Pinterest)

Writing Review Week

I think my greatest writing success has been The Ants’ Revenge.  I don’t write very well, but I’m proud of this story for this class.

I don’t really have a good strategy for figuring out a storytelling.  I typically just read the stories, and anytime I get an idea I write it down in my reading diary.  Whichever idea I like the most at the end of my readings, I write about.  I try to make a point of picking out small parts in a story that I can expand upon and make into it’s own story.  It’s worked fairly well so far.  

The feedback has been very nice!

My biggest challenges probably involve getting up to the right word count.  I HATE writing stories, so word count is difficult.  I typically make my stories short and sweet, and then go back and expand on them until I hit the right word count (which is probably why most of my endings are so abrupt).

(Smiling sheep)

This is an image from my first Storytelling post, Clumsy Brian O’Lin.  I chose this image because it makes me giggle, and giggling is important.  

Reading Review Week

I really like the set up of the readings, and that we have different types of stories each week.  I like this better than being able to choose from a selection of 100+ stories each week.  That would be difficult.  

I really enjoyed the Aesop’s Fables readings.  I love the lessons learned from the stories.  I think they were my favorite readings so far in the semester.  

Actually, just kidding! Aesop’s Fables are a close second to the Twenty-Two Goblins story! I really loved that section. I loved that the stories overlapped and were related, but you didn’t necessarily have to read one before the other.  I like clever stories, and Twenty-Two Goblins was definitely clever.  

(Twenty-Two Goblins Book Cover)

I chose this image because Twenty-Two Goblins was my favorite reading so far.

My least favorite story that I read were the West African Folk Tales.  They didn’t really seem to have much of a purpose, and not all of the stories made sense to me.  I didn’t really enjoy them very much.  

I don’t really have any reading/note taking strategies.  I just write my reading diary as I go along and use that to write my story telling.  

I’m enjoying this class and the readings so far!