First, I would like to address the work I have done so far for my benchmark: I have created my character's Tumblr and sent out my first few posts. Next, I would like to discuss how terribly difficult it was to stop after completing the aforementioned tasks. Tumblr is so terribly interesting! I set aside a half hour to complete the work on my benchmark because I thought the registering and posting would take all of ten minutes with the most time consuming portion her blog's creation being character appropriate decorating or customizing (to use the Tumblr lingo.) However, by the time I had logged off her account, a good hour had passed. I just wanted to keep posting! I wanted to pick a favorite book for her, a favorite movie, a favorite weekday dessert, a favorite place. So I did, condoning my actions with pointing out that had she really just created this account she would have been as over zealous as I was. What I neglected to note is that I had known this would happen and had built such excitement into the timeline. Tomorrow was the day I was supposed to go buckwild on the site, posting each menial thought and seemingly inconsequential like or dislike.  Oh the horror! I had deviated from the timeline on the first day! Wishing to return to the clearly laid path, I took down everything I posted excepting the first post and saved it in a word document making my deviation preparation. In summation, I think things are going well for my benchmark. ​

First, I would like to address the work I have done so far for my benchmark: I have created my character's Tumblr and sent out my first few posts. Next, I would like to discuss how terribly difficult it was to stop after completing the aforementioned tasks. Tumblr is so terribly interesting! I set aside a half hour to complete the work on my benchmark because I thought the registering and posting would take all of ten minutes with the most time consuming portion her blog's creation being character appropriate decorating or customizing (to use the Tumblr lingo.) However, by the time I had logged off her account, a good hour had passed. I just wanted to keep posting! I wanted to pick a favorite book for her, a favorite movie, a favorite weekday dessert, a favorite place. So I did, condoning my actions with pointing out that had she really just created this account she would have been as over zealous as I was. What I neglected to note is that I had known this would happen and had built such excitement into the timeline. Tomorrow was the day I was supposed to go buckwild on the site, posting each menial thought and seemingly inconsequential like or dislike.  Oh the horror! I had deviated from the timeline on the first day! Wishing to return to the clearly laid path, I took down everything I posted excepting the first post and saved it in a word document making my deviation preparation. In summation, I think things are going well for my benchmark.

So far I've created the four twitters I needed for my four characters in my story. The more I think about my story, the more I had to it's storyline which is bringing in more characters. Since I'm bringing in more characters, I may have to create at least 2 more twitter profiles. I've decided that I'm going to tweet what my characters are doing a day prior to when my actual story begins. So readers can have a little bit more knowledge about the characters. By 4/8 (the check-in) I plan to have told much of my story through twitter, the only details in my story that won't be in the tweets are what I'm currently still adding to the story. 

I always had trouble in terms of organization, that’s why I decided to created a detail timeline of tasks. I will be using Facebook, and the Notes tool as a Diary for my character. I will start posting by 4/5 and my story will be ending 4/30.  I feel like I have a really good picture of what my face should look like by the end of April. I’m still trying to figure out how to let my audience know what’s going on without telling them too much information. So far, everything is working great with the exception that I will need to find pictures for my facebook page.

 

I am on top of everything so far for my benchmark. My timeline is complete, my twitter account is created and there are several posts up from my character. I have even found different ways to show my characters feelings and emotions and her individuality. I am only struggling with how to speed up the time it takes for me to tell my story, I think I may cut some of it out. I changed my initial plans on creating a facebook, for each character, I felt like the twitter would be easier for my character to tell her story. People on facebook have too many opportunities to ask too many questions, which would make my character seem too weird and secretive. My project is coming alone really well. I am going to continue working on my posts but hopefully by Monday I will get deeper into my story.

Well I'm going to be honest I am probably behind most for my benchmark. I have created my tumblr account but that is really about it. I plan to have things really moving no later then friday. I didn't write anything yet o  my blog. But sometimes I wonder is tumblr the right thing to use because at school I am not able to access it in school and with my story I need to post somethings during those times. I feel like after I really get things started I will feel really good about the project and it will be a really nice one. So I will continue to motivate myself so that I can receive a good grade for this project. 

So far my project is going really great. I am still in the Pre-Story phase, but the main story is about to start on Thursday. Some problems that I have been running into is remembering to post frequently. A great amount of post and updates are a major part of who my character is and how I want to build her story but I often forget to post.  I do find myself though posting things I'm really thinking for her. I think it's good because it gives it a real life feel. I am really worried about starting the real story because I want to execute it right so that my story makes sense. Other than that everything is going well.

So, I have finally made my tumblr account and I am pretty excited about it. I'm still contemplating on how I should do the videos and how I should word the post. I want to make sure I don't use every single piece of my story in every post. My plan is to have enough diversity of thoughts and the true story combined in the many post. Other things like music and photos my character enjoys will be on the tumblr account. Im quite excited for the outcome of the finishing product. 

I'm running behind on my timeline purely because I'm picky. I don't want to start this twitter page for this 6 year old an have her first post be at an unreasonable time. But over the past few days I haven't been available to make her first post at a reasonable time. I'm interested in the way that this profile will play out because I can't see people following this girl on twitter, but maybe that's me. It's probably gonna play out well regardless. I'm excited about using the twit pic app of twitter, and the trending topics to apply to my character's personality. This should be fun.