12 weeks have gone by fast. When I started this blog 12 weeks ago I was trying to discover my identity. I wrote passively, was long winded, and my words were cluttered. Over the 12 week span i've cleaned up some of these problems but I am still a work in progress.
In ICM 501 we were required to have a blog. At the time I wanted to write an NFL blog. However, it was the first course in the ICM masters program. I felt writing a sports blog would be considered very cliche. Instead I chose to write about traveling. At the time I was commuting over an hour a day by car to work. Quickly I discovered this was not a topic I could sustain a blogroll for 12 weeks. The blog ended up being lackluster and I felt defeated.
This course gave me a second chance at writing. I chose a topic I was passionate about and built a persona around it. I'm still building that persona but I'm happy where I am right now. Writing about the NFL is something I have always wanted to do. It is the one thing I am truly passionate about. Although i'm writing for an audience, i'm really writing this blog for me. I love talking about this league. Sometimes I have no one to talk about it with. This blog has proven to be my conversation about NFL. I thought I would have struggled since this course occurred during the NFL offseason. I think that helped me. My writing was not about games but about deeper issues affecting the league.
As I continue working on this blog I will probably remove my pseudonym. Throughout the course I never shared my writing with anyone on Facebook. I only shared my posts on twitter with the professor and my group-mates. I was afraid that people would criticize my work. Now I don't care. People will either like it or they won't...and I am ok with that. I'll let my work speak for itself.
I enjoyed this course overall. The assignments were interesting and made me brainstorm when thinking about posts. Luckily I was able to adapt all the assignments to my niche. I never was sure where I stood in this course, but quite frankly it did not bother me. I made the decision when enrolling in this masters program that I could care less about grades. I'm doing this program for self happiness and getting 100% on everything is less important actually learning something new. I liked that we were split into groups. Sometimes in large classes it is hard to follow all 25 people on a message board. If you miss a day on the message board you are behind. I liked being able to follow 2 other blogrolls and give them the attention they deserve. I wish we did a google hangout at least once during the semester. I would have liked to put faces to names (at least to people in my group).
Going forward I am just "Steve", a passionate NFL fan who is excited for the upcoming season. I couldn't be more excited to reveal myself to the world and to get to work on my writing.
This is just the beginning...
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