Wrap Up

Now that this journal challenge is complete, I spent a good portion of the morning reviewing my entries. Some I liked, some I didnt, which is pretty consistent with most artistic works.
Looking even deeper into them, I found that some could use editing- they feel rushed or choppy, or incomplete or all three. There are a few reasons for this- 1. The word count. We had to keep to the word count at a max of 500. When I started some of the entries, I didnt take this into consideration, and went WAY over the count. Not wanting to go back and do a complete rewrite and edit, I just cut out certain paragraphs, sentences and words to get to where I needed to be. I think this also took away some of the "impact" of my entry, but hey, its my own fault. 2. I rushed through them just so I could get the entry posted. In hindsight, I wish I had not done so. I shouldve taken the late submission and just completed the entry, as the main reason I joined this challenge was for the challenge of pushing the honesty of my writing, not the challenge in, and of, itself. 3. I had crappy ideas that didnt pan out. And again, I didnt want, nor had the time, to do a rewrite.

Overall, however, I was happy how it turned out. I also had some nice comments and feedback from some of my watchers and a few other participants as well.

I am going to present a question to you- would any of you like to see me edit the entries that are choppy? Unfortunately, I wish I had kept the originals as I could have posted them in completion after this challenge was over.

If any of you are interested, this challenge was dreamed up and run by hypermagical who I think I did a great job at keeping things organized and fair, as well coming up with all the themes. Please take a minute to stop by her page and give her a little bit of love as she deserves it.