Blogg Reviews

Blake,

Reading through all of your posts I feel like I almost know you! You seem very passionate about your family, friends and girlfriend. You are a great storyteller. You are so descriptive in your post and you seem to leave no detail behind. One of the things that I also noticed was that you have a natural way of implementing dialogue into your stories which makes your stories all the more relatable.

I really enjoyed reading your first blog post, “Fate”. It was there that I first noticed your skills of a great storyteller, I don’t know how you manage to remember that great amount of detail. I remember trying to think of a sensational story to write about fate but you left it simple and it turned out t be a great piece. One of my favorite posts of yours was the one about your guitars. By the way you write about them, it tells me how passionate you are about music. I love the way you personified them. I also liked this story because I saw a different side to your writing that I hadn’t seen in your other posts. One of the other posts that I really enjoyed was the one titled “French Braid”. I liked how you had the instinct to write through different perspectives. I also found it interesting when you write what you thought about yourself through someone else’s perspective.

Some things that I would look out for are grammar and spelling errors. You would think that they wouldn’t be as significant as the actual content of the essay but you don’t want readers to be stumbling over words and having to reread a section for clarity.
All in all, you did an excellent job with all of your posts, all were really entertaining.

Ali,
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n almost every post you had me laughing out loud. The side comical remarks that you write make the posts all the more entertaining to read. You are so frank which added to the hilarious touch to your posts. You are a really great writer; you seem to always keep your reader in mind while writing such entertaining stories.

“The Real Happy Meal” was one of my favorite posts of yours. You seem to admire your brother very much and I liked how you portrayed this with that simple scene on your ride from school. The story is very sweet and innocent and again you didn’t let me down with your comical remarks. Would it be wrong of me to say that “Stopped Short” was another favorite of mine? I loved the way that you repeated that last line throughout the three stories; it really tied them up nicely. So early in the semester and you were already writing collage type essays! I also liked the “Untold Stories” post; it revealed a more vulnerable side to you but you kept a calm attitude through it (much like your brother’s) that made the subject matter easier to write about.

I would also look out for grammar and spelling errors within your posts. I also noticed that some of your posts did not have that strong of an ending, things were sort of still left up in the air. But I have to say that I really enjoyed reading your posts, keep up the great work!