Writing Alone vs Collaborative Writing

 I had never really dealt with blogs before this project and so I didn't know how much it had to offer. Writing the story on a blog was a new experience and it made me want to see what else you can do on a blog. I liked that others could have access to what you wrote and were able to add to it and comment on it.  I've used other websites where you could create posters on the website but they weren't as interactive. This is somewhat similar but others can comment on what you post.
 Digital mediums are different because it makes your ideas more accessible and easy to share or edit. With an online medium, you write more because you can type a lot faster than you write. You know you can go back and take out what you don't want in the end if you decide that you don't like what you had written. When you edit your work on paper, you can see where it was changed so online mediums are a lot neater and easier to correct. Googles interface was hard to use at first but then it was easy to use once I got the hang of it, but at first I had to ask others to show me what to do. 
As a group we created a page that was a collaboration of all of our ideas. If I had written it alone then I probably wouldn't have taken as much time to write the story because working with others made me think about what we were writing and how we could make it better while we were writing it. On my own I probably wouldn't go back and edit it much. It was easier to catch errors with so many people reading it.
 Writing the analytical paper is different because you don't have someone else to talk with about how you can improve your paper or other ways of wording sentences to make your point come across clearer. I wrote my analytical paper once through and then went back to rearrange parts but in the digital story you couldn't do that because we were responsible for one page and it had to be written from the details other people gave. You don't have as much freedom when writing in a group. In creative writing and research papers, you have the freedom to write about any topic of your choice but in research papers, you need outside sources to back up your claims. The target reader for the page was the other students in the class and so the story could have details geared towards this age level. Our page and story was about something we all could find interest in. I don't think only one story we read influenced us. Our story was influenced by different aspects of each story.