... is not with writing.
It is with reading. It is with thinking. It is with the habit of conversation. It is with practice in discussion.
Sometimes I think that the trouble I have with writing comes from the fact that I have nothing to say. But somehow, even I can't believe that.
I think the problem is that my writing sounds like me. Or like a textbook. It doesn't ever sound like people I read, people who get quoted, people who get RT'd. It just sounds like me.
And I am not sure that's good enough.
So I twist my writing self into knots and contort my writing to look like something I don't quite get. And then I hurt--from the effort and from the idea that somehow just sounding like me is not good enough.
The trouble with writing then becomes the trouble with my whole life. Try fixing that!
It is with reading. It is with thinking. It is with the habit of conversation. It is with practice in discussion.
Sometimes I think that the trouble I have with writing comes from the fact that I have nothing to say. But somehow, even I can't believe that.
I think the problem is that my writing sounds like me. Or like a textbook. It doesn't ever sound like people I read, people who get quoted, people who get RT'd. It just sounds like me.
And I am not sure that's good enough.
So I twist my writing self into knots and contort my writing to look like something I don't quite get. And then I hurt--from the effort and from the idea that somehow just sounding like me is not good enough.
The trouble with writing then becomes the trouble with my whole life. Try fixing that!
