# ✍ Process Blog

"Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates." - Lauren Conrad Read

"Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me." - Kaui Hart Hemmings

**I BLOG THEREFORE I AM** Throughout this semester you will keep a process blog solely for this class. Consistent documentation of your creative process is key to developing a professional practice; it provides a record of your journey from rough idea to polished prototype.

Keeping a thorough log, on a consistent platform, of your inspirations and research; motivations and setbacks; sketches and preliminary builds can be beneficial to your creative, academic and long term success in a variety of ways. A process blog allows you to:

* articulate your ideas more clearly and concisely through the steady exercise of writing and researching.
* reflect upon the flow and evolution of your ideas over time.
* accumulate a breadth of material to share with a public audience, so that the narrative of your work is conveyed thoroughly and holistically.
* provide an audience, institution or investor, numerous vantage points (personal, conceptual, critical, and technical) from which to view your work.
* retrace your steps along a timeline, should your current trajectory prove unsuccessful.
* find inspiration for future projects, from unexplored threads in your earlier project documentation.
* streamline the workflow of your future projects.

Throughout this semester you will document weekly on your process blog all of your written, data, photographic, sound & video research and implementation. The I & D process blog should be specific to this course (not a pre-existing, personal or other course blog).

You have a few publishing options:

* Create a free blog on any platform that you are familiar with, for example: [wix](https://www.wix.com/html5us/hiker-blog?utm_source=google\&utm_medium=cpc\&utm_campaign=213763300^10473742660\&experiment_id=blog%20sites^e^50011923820^1t1\&gclid=CjwKCAjwtajrBRBVEiwA8w2Q8FRVpQ8ok6nmj8kscdsoDfPBe6QpdbpcI6c0t22zbrSiAofcUQLPgBoCYckQAvD_BwE), [squarespace](https://www.squarespace.com/tour/create-a-blog/?channel=pnb\&subchannel=go\&campaign=pnb-dr-go-us-en-verticals-e\&subcampaign=\(verticals-blog_blog-sites_e\)\&gclid=CjwKCAjwtajrBRBVEiwA8w2Q8CNfOuW8Ksk5B0qCcx-UQiGAcakltR9mZ5GfGERnlS7LmzXQGljb7hoCbe0QAvD_BwE), [weebly](https://www.weebly.com/lp/blog/style-tst/?c=mkt_w_chnl:semnb_geo:US_prtnr:ggl_camp:G-S-NB-BMM-US_campid:2063545155_ag:Blogging-Site_agid:81847323331_kw:%2Bblogging%20%2Bsite_mt:b_dvc:c\&gclid=CjwKCAjwtajrBRBVEiwA8w2Q8EEfzCfimmXLdjBDvJJDNphmqwaAff_ky1uM0rg7XTapwGe2Q-LJSBoCRrwQAvD_BwE), [tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/), [blogger](https://www.blogger.com/), [wordpress](https://wordpress.com/), [medium](https://medium.com/)
* Create a dedicated wordpress via [http://wp.nyu.edu](http://wp.nyu.edu/)
  * If you don’t already have NYU server space, please contact Elton Kwok, <eltonkwok@nyu.edu>, IDM's Technology Director to get directions on setting up your space.

Once you have created your process blog share the url here.&#x20;