Writing is like chemistry. It’s stringing together different words with bonds and linkages. Forming compounds that are stable—completed valence shells. Each word has it’s own strength, like charge, and weight in a musing. Syllables become atomic mass. Meter and rhyme and rhythm become ionic charges and covalent desired electrons.
It feels really good to finish a piece of writing that makes you proud. When I can say to someone: Read this. Tell me what you think. And not be afraid that they’ll say that it’s the worst string of drivel they’ve ever tried to piece together with their perceptual eyes and cognitive processes: that feels good. Writing is so permanent, and this is my contribution.
Good writing makes me happy. Original, different, good writing. Writing that comes out poetic and flows, without needlessly repeated words or offending, caustic sounds, unless, of course, that’s the intended effect. Writing with an intended effect. I like using run-on sentences and short pseudo-sentences—maybe even just a word or two—to get my meaning across. Writing shouldn’t be so structured, the way that’s taught in English classes. I mean, of course, children need to understand the basics of language, grammar, et cetera, but, for me, I work outside of the box.
When I write fiction, or autobiographical fiction as of late, I like to play with tenses and moods. I like to throw in long, run-on, digressing analogies and side-thoughts. Stories. I write as if I were telling a story, verbally. I think if you keep that in mind, my writing is not as unbearable. I’m no Shakespeare, but with luck, maybe I could be the next Salinger. And, yes, I realize how terrible it is to compare myself to such a genius.
So I strung these words together, straight from my conscience, to prove a point. My writing is, maybe: one part classical Latin, three parts English grammar, one part science and twelve parts random. Miscellaneous. Digression. Italics. Punctuation. Thought.
But I really do appreciate people reading my words, and I really am thankful for every time someone says, “Hey, I read your blog… you should write more.” Period
