Week 8 Comments and Feedback

Overall, I think the comments and feedback that I have been receiving have been decent. Some are better than others, and the ones that seem to work the best for me are the critical ones. I want people to tell me where they think my stories could use some improvement but I want them to be specific so that way I can go to the part in the story directly. These are the types of comments that I can actually use for my work. The ones that tell me that I'm doing a great job are nice and make me feel good about myself so I can't complain but if they are thinking my story needs work I would enjoy to know. I would say the comments that I am leaving on other peoples work isn't the best as well either. I could do a better job about being more critical towards others, but I find that hard in a class like this because I feel that each story for a person is a piece of opinion/art. If I see something that doesn't make sense I will tell them but I need to be more critical in the end. As I look at other people's work it has allowed me to think about the things that I enjoy about their story and try to replicate that in my own fashion. I would say this isn't the main way I get ideas for my own work but it definitely does contribute. I actually do feel like through the comments I am starting to get a better idea of who the other people are in the class and their opinions. I think that my blog's introduction does a pretty good job of explaining who I am, but possibly could use some more pictures. I think that my blog could let people know the type of person I am better, but at the same time I kind of want people to just look at my blog for the stories rather than who I am as a person being that some of my stories are slightly dark and I don't consider myself a dark person.

In making changes for the future, I have to be more specific in the details I want people to change within their stories. I need to make it clear by using the exact sentences or paragraphs I feel could use some work. I want others to do the same for me as well because that makes the feedback actually relatable.

In terms of changing my blog, I could probably make it better in terms of graphic design. I have never been the most artistic and usually just care about the words rather than the visual experience but with a class like this it appears I need to change my ways. Other than that, I feel that I am headed in the right direction for this class.

I used this picture of the cats because of how I say I need more criticism in my feedback. I found it here.

I chose this picture because I think it shows a cat being goofy while another cat is glaring at him. As I said earlier I need to be more critical of others and hope that people do the same towards me.