After reading an article about where to find inspiration for blogs, I realized finding inspiration wasn't my problem. How I set out on doing these weekly blogs was that I was going to write the greatest blog post week in and week out, and in trying to do so I fell behind and lost the real reason for having a blog. The goal is to get your opinions out there, no matter what they're on and to draft an argument, good or bad. After finishing a unit on freedom of speech, I would sit in class thinking about the connections between our First Amendment rights and blogging. With this useful medium for expressing ideas and opinions, that so many previous people would have killed to have this tool, and I don't use it. Inspiration can come from anything, and from now on no matter how important or unimportant something is, but it means something to me, I'm going to blog about it.
This is definitely the case for me, and I think its the case for a lot of us. I see the blog posts that Bolos and O'Connor produce and I think to myself: "Why can't I post something that specific and that well-written?" For us, as we are new to this, it's hard to think of a topic when we can basically blog about anything that connects to American Studies. I never know if a possible topic of mine is too specific, too broad, or just plain boring.
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