Journal 5 Talia Colarusso

I never really though much about the spreadability of my writing until I was in college. In high school sure I had twitter and Facebook, but that was about as far as my writing ever spread. I would always put though into my tweets though, twitter was a very popular social media outlet in my high school and news spread on twitter usually fast than it did in school. Once I came into college I started working with the art and literature magazine at my previous school TCC. I was an editor so my job was usually to pick what pieces of work I though would work the best for the magazine and what pieces would appeal to the largest audience. If I didn’t take this into consideration and just picked any random pieces I thought were interesting the magazine might have failed due to its unpopulatirty. “Our message is simple and direct: if it doesn't spread, it's dead. “I think that’s a great quote from the Jenkins article, it’s harsh yes but it is true. Coming into my third year of college I started blogging for the clothing store I work at. I now more than ever realized just how important spreadbilty truly is to writing. Whenever I don’t post much on the blog very often I notice a decline in store traffic. Whenever I do happen to be blogging a lot I notice an increase in traffic to the website and the store. It is not always easy to continuously blog just about the items in the store so I recently started blogging more about events happening in the Gaines street area, or different places we will be holding our pop us shops. So yes in the past few years it has come to my attention just how important the spreadbility of ones work truly is. Not that doesn’t mean I like how important it is. I have realized since I started writing in a more public eye just how scrutinized I feel about my work, say if a blog post doesn’t get quite as many views as I would like or if a piece I selected for the magazine wasn’t approved by the rest of the staff. I also notice my writing takes on a different voice when I am blogging for the store than if I was writing for myself. Having to worry about the spreadbilty of your work is defiantly an added pressure and will make you doubt yourself as a writer at times, but if you can get through that, it is a major key to success in writing.