I’m Back!!!
Every time I log onto my website and start to read my old blogs and drafts I get this jolt of energy and inspiration to start posting again.
Has it been 11 months since my last post..sadly yes, but we can not change the past, but we can focus on the present and that’s what I’m exactly going to do.
Consistency was not even in L2LL’s dictionary and that is the first thing we are going to address moving forward. Plus excuses and perfectionism. Yep you read right, there are officially no more excuses because I am no longer in school, so the “being too busy” is out the door and the perfectionism is not fully out the door, but I can’t let that stop me. I have about 50 drafts of blogs, which either fall under (A) I forgot to finish, (B) did not think it was good enough, or (C) was too afraid of what people would think.
Am I going to go back, edit, and post the drafts? Undecided. I read a couple of them and some of them need a lot of work and others just don’t fit what I am currently feeling, so they will be parked for now until I’m ready to touch them.
With that being said, I will need to write some new blogs and I have created two rules for myself. The rules are solely to keep myself accountable. And please call me out (to whomever may have found this website) if I don’t keep up my end of the stick.
Rules:
No using AI for writing assistance
Post twice a month
Why:
I feel I have lost the art of story telling and refining my own work and relying too much on technology (Claude, Chat, and Gemini) to help with my writing. More so, I became lazy. I really only started to use different AI software during my last two semesters of college to streamline some of my work as I was doing 21 credit hours (aka 8 classes per semester). But when you use it to often you start to default to it, which I do not want to continue down that path.
Now Now Now, that makes me sound like I put directions into Claude and ask it to write everything for me, no that’s not what I did. I would fully write my essay and then upload my written essay and requirements, then ask it to read it through and grade me. Which then I would ask Claude to help me refine my work catering towards the rubric.
This does not mean I am not going to use Claude, Chat, or Gemini to ask it to read my writing and tell me what I could improve on because I would like to grow as a writer. But I am no longer going to say read my draft and help me with the flow of my writing.
When it comes to my blogs, in the past I would use these software to fix my grammar. I would not use it to write my blogs because I really wanted to keep my blogs ethnic, but I would rely on it to fix my grammar for me. I feel like I was not using my brain to fix my own work and I was just relying on AI as I knew it would make my writing virtually seamless, which in turn is now making me a sloppy writer.
I really knew I was in the trenches when I was writing in my journal and on my postcards and had mistakes left and right. I mean easy mistakes. Mistakes that I wouldn’t have made in 7th grade! So that is going to change with the first steps starting with this blog:)
And rule number two is in place to make sure I work towards my larger goal with L2LL, but also making sure I relearn how to write and actively work on my perfectionism tendency. Which now that I think of it is kind of a double edge sword because on one hand posting even if it’s not perfect is forcing me to get outside my comfort zone, but also if I post twice a month that is adding to my perfectionism of not going back on my word, which could lead to a downward spiral. Though the benefits outweigh the consequences.
So, here’s to the first blog of November!
SK
(P.S. I wrote a similar blog to this one 1 year ago from now, which dives deeper into L2LL. Click Here to Read.)
