Woolf

I believe that Woolf's idea that a woman needs a "a room of ones own" is directly connected to blogging and the ability to blog. Having a room of our (women) own entails the ability to produce, expand, and express our ideas. It entails freedom and exploration in that it counters the oppressed mind in which was once always in someone elses (a mans) space.

I say that this is directly connected to blogging in that blogging creates an opportunity for anybody with access to a computer, which is nearly everyone in a 'westernized' country, to truly maintain a space of their own. We can, as Virginia Woolf may have implied with her idea of having her own room, produce, express, and expand on our ideas and thoughts. It allows others to, without inhibition, react and add to our ideas.

Blogging is certainly an extension of Woolfs vision in that it allows for those who may feel intellectually repressed to release their trapped thoughts. I think Woolfs vision encapsulated this idea - "a room of ones own" to allow intelectually repressed women to dree themselves.

my writing metaphor

To me, writing is like fighting with someone important to me. I feel very scatterbrained and cannot seem to get the words form my brain to my mouth. The words come out strange, awkward and with meanings not intended. I know that I muist be very careful of what I say and yet many times, the things I say, I wish I could change.

Fighting with someone important to me is frustrating and I am impatient for it to end. Yet sometimes I am impatient to finish it and tend to drag it out. But when it is over I feel the same sense of relief and often times accomplishment because I now have a better understanding and a stronger connection with the person who I have fought with.

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This may seem like a strange metaphor, and maybe I did not express it right, but it mades sense in my head. When it comes to writing I am usually very scatterbrained and frustrated, having difficulty connecting my thoughts. Althogh the process of writing it may be long, when I finish a paper I always feel a great sense of relief.