Final Reflection

So this past Monday we got our assignment for our final reflection paper... I definately don't think I will have a complete draft ready by this coming Monday! I am STUCK right now. I don't know what to write about, there are so many things, I've tried outlining specific ideas, but the topic of authorship is still so broad that I can't narrow it down. This is the first time all year that I have been this clueless as to what I'm going to write about, which is bad, because it's already Friday and a complete draft is due in about 3 days. I've honestly sat down for about an hour and a half everyday since we got the assignment and tried to think of what to write. I got as far as the first sentence and that's it. I guess some people call this "writer's block", but I'm not even sure if that's what this is. It usually doesn't take me this long to get into my "author" mode. After discussing authorship all semester, I thought I knew what I considered an author to be, but now I'm not so sure because I can't even get it out in writing. Is anyone else having the same problem with this paper?

Mix Tape Reflection

For the mix tape project, I decided to make a cd with songs for my boyfriend. After thinking about it for a while, I decided that I wanted to make it about the "twists and turns" that our relationship has been through. The cd starts out with a love song that is kind of slow. Gradually, it "slopes down" into more sad/angry songs but the pace gradually speeds up. This section is supposed to symbolize our rough times. A couple examples of these songs are "I Should've Cheated"by Keyshia Cole and "Crazy Over You"by Eminem. Then finally, the songs on the cd increase back up with "make up"songs like "Sorry 2004"by Ruben Studdard.

I very much enjoyed this project and never thought that I would ever have been able to do it for a class. I love music, so anything that has to do with it doesn't seem like work to me, it's fun. The only thing that I didn't like about the project were some of the "rules" that we read. For example, the rule that said that we shouldn't use 2 songs by the same artist back-to-back. I understand that in a way, but the way that I used 2 songs back-to back seemed to work. I used 2 songs by 50 Cent, but both of them were duets. So I think that because there are other artists on the songs with him, it's okay to bend the rules.