My work was inspired by the TV show, The Mindy Project. With her witty and yet straight to the point opinion, Mindy Kaling creates a hilarious and yet intriguing approach on life. I wanted to do something similar to my blog. When writing on the blog, I didn’t want to beat around the bush or add fluff when unnecessary. I wanted to create something real and when given different topics, I wanted to add supporting details along with my own thoughts on the subjects. Although, I wanted to add some spark to my work with some jokes or inspiration when I could.
It can definitely be hard to create something eye-catching. Something that the public would be interested in along with adding content, writing, and then to keep the publics attention. I think the WordPress blog definitely taught me that writing can either be a positive or negative thing. When we did peer comments on one another’s blogs, it felt good to see everyone’s different writing approaches on the topics. No one ever wrote the same way or about the same exact thing. We can really open our creative minds when sharing our experiences with others and then comparing our works. I think it’s also a positive experience to receive feedback, whether it’s more negative or positive because in the end it just makes us and our work stronger.
The look for my WordPress blog is clean and simple, but yet highly vibrant. My color scheme was very important to me since I wanted something that was eye-catching and yet not too distracting to the viewers eye. In a way, my WordPress blog and my final website has a similar style with color and composition. Overall, I was inspired to create something fun and yet real. I wanted to mimic an experience of a public blog so that I could see how my peers and I would interact with one another. It was fun and disappointing at times, but the comments and work paid off and I feel confident to create blogs with my own portfolio website.