writing on writing
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I have been reading a lot of Catholic centered books recently, so I decided I needed a break. Of course, I don’t know how much of a break it will be since the first thing I picked up to read was Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology…
I’ve said this before, but I’ve been blogging online for a long time, close to eight years. I’ve seemed to develop a very strong habit of only writing about bad situations in my life. It’s easy because I personally find it easy to write creatively when I literally need to write to cope. I’ve also noticed when I am happy, I write less. It is obvious then that my writing is a tool that I use when I need it. When I’m not writing about something bad, I write about something conceptual or a thought process. Occasionally, I throw in something silly– more often if I have nothing else to write. The thought process/conceptual writing is my personal favorite, but it doesn’t have a very large appeal to anyone outside of well, me.
However, I like writing and I want to learn share other, more positive, things. I don’t know how to do this without feeling as though I am merely running down a daily list of things, in the “dear diary” format. I want to write in a more interesting way than that and a more personal way. I want to be able to captivate an audience, because, let’s be honest, I have no other talents! (Just kidding, sort of.) I also wish to develop a sense of self in my writing where when I do write something positive, I am not merely copying a tone or style of another writer.