Project Reflection

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on my project, I have discovered 3 things. First of all I have discovered what it is like to write about my experience. I was not expecting to enjoy this part of the project. I have hard a really hard time going through what I have been through and I in no way thought that going over it would be a good idea for me. I thought going over it would bring back all the horrible times and make me go through it again. I thought by writing about my situation I might be helping others but I would be put back through torture. However, this was not the case. While I’m not specifically enjoying writing about my experiences, I’m not hating them either. While there’s not a huge relief at sharing them it’s not horrible to be able to share them with someone who isn’t going to immediately start saying how horrible their life is. So there’s that.

Another thing I have found while doing this project is that it’s not as hard as I thought to run a website. Although my website isn’t exactly a popular one, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so easy to create and run a website of my own. While doing this project I have also started up three other websites which are fake news websites for my favorite book series, The Lunar Chronicles, Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus, and The Land of Stories. It’s been fun to play around with both these and my project site making them look how I want them to. Although having them on a free website builder means I don’t have as much freedom, it’s been nice to see what I can do without having to pay a penny. I would suggest that other people try making websites too, whether it be a blog or something else. It’s a great way to spend your time.

The final thing I’ve learned is that sometimes, when you’ve got something to offer, it’s best to offer it, even if it’s not something you want to do. When I first started this project it wasn’t what I wanted to do. My original idea had been to create a site where I suggested books to readers and nonreaders. I had some ideas on how to make it more original and how to make it something you couldn’t find anywhere else. I started this project early because I was so excited about it. But I quickly found out that it wasn’t the right project for me because none of the suggestions were really all that good. Part of the idea was to suggest books to read if they had already read the book at the bottom of the page describing that book. This wasn’t working either because I didn’t have enough knowledge of books to suggest books similar to the book in question. I would always have a couple of suggestions but never enough.

So that’s what I’ve learned about my project so far. To see my actual site click the link on the side of the page.