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Some Thoughts On Writing From a No Better Writer Than You, Who Writes Better Than You
This isn’t writing advice, it’s my writing experience, shared in a manner I want to, how I remember it.
Oh, boy. That title is asking for it. But before you spend minutes of your life you’ll never get back, writing paragraphs I’ll probably never read — hear me out. Though it may not appear so at first glance, my title is low-key self-deprecating, and hiddenly humble.
I wouldn’t consider myself a particularly confident person and I write this off as being too honest with myself. I’m too much of a realist, most of the time anyhow, to lie to myself about what talents I do or don’t possess.
However, from the time I was nine or ten years old, people have gone out of their way to express how they feel about most things I write, and though I finally agree with them a quarter century later — for a very long time I didn’t believe them.
This is mostly because of how easy it came to me and how much I enjoyed writing itself. I liked the writing part, not the attention I received after. From an early age, I failed to find a way to discuss anything I wrote in a meaningful or genuine way, and this is likely due to the fact I’ve never had the least bit of interest in doing…
