Welcome back Writers

Welcome to Day 2 of Blogging with Becky. I was thrilled to hear the click, click, click of people typing their first entries yesterday. There is something affirming to writing and then hitting, "Publish Post". I like that it presents my work with a nice backdrop too. As a reminder, your writing should be as close to grammatically sound as possible. Please do your best to spell and punctuate things correctly and feel free to use spellcheck. Adhere to capitalization rules as best as possible too. Now, I say all of that not so that you think I am judging solely on those features of your writing. To me, the ideas and extrapolation of this ideas is always the most important feature. However, since these will be read by others in the community, it is best to make the reading experience as easy as possible-- and let's be honest, reading work that is presented in the right form is preferable to trying to decipher someone's meaning through too many errors.

Enough said on that subject.

For now, I will keep your blog addresses to myself, meaning that only I will be reading your work. Additionally, since you have not advertised your blog titles to others, you should enjoy relative anonymity. If you want to adjust your settings to welcome guests you are encouraged to do so. Probably starting next week we'll open up the community so you can really get to know one another.

Today's task: Please blog in whatever fashion and style you would like. Process a situation or problem, vent, celebrate, venerate, or write a poem. Share a story from the past or the present. Write vividly.

Then, once you've posted for the day, please do the following:

Jump into the internet at large and look for other blogs. A good starting point might be a newspaper or news magazine that surely employs journalists to blog. Your task: locate 5 different bloggers that regularly contribute to their blog. Write down who they are and what you can glean of their intent or message/purpose to their blog. What do you notice about their writing style? Their tone? They topic? In an organized blog- by Friday- please list the 5 blogs you have located and liked and provide a description of both the author and the author's content.