This is a confession of love. I am in love with my secret lover and his name is writing. No one would ever know it, but I truly and utterly really like writing. Words are magical and powerful and when put together they can create true beauty. I can remember some writer saying it should be glass; smooth with no imperfections. Well my writing is much like broken glass with no chance of ever being perfectly smooth.
My writing level is comparable to a six grader’s. Strangely, that is when I stopped scoring high on the in school writing tests. I became frustrated with words and began to hate them. They were my worst nightmare and haunted me every time I put pen to paper. Those around made me fell as if I were mentally challenged or dyslexic (I really could be dyslexic). I was so ashamed of my writing that I purposely wrote in chicken scratch so no one would be able to read what I wrote. That sucked because my handwriting is really nice and I have a gift of writing amazingly in cursive. English 101 in college I almost failed and in English 102, my teacher asked me if English was my first language. In A.P. English in high school I hated writing so much I used to rhyme every thing I turned in to my teacher, from my essay test question, to major papers. She made me move to regular English and put all of my writings on file in the guidance office, so it could be on record that I was a bad writer. Regular English was wonderful. We never wrote, just watched made for television movies about famous novels and drew pictures that were our own interpretation of the movies. I felt smart. Rhyming all of my work in A.P. English paid off during the Shakespearean poetry unit. The other kids would buy me things if I would write there poems for them.
I am taking a stand! I like to write and I can’t do it well. (That is why I started to write for a blog so I could get better). I know for a fact there are trillions out there who are just like me. We need to stand up and fight against those who turn their noses up at our inability to spell, place a colon, or make sure our sentences have a subject, verb and predicate. The good writers in the world need to watch their backs because there is a war brewing; us bad writers who like to write, we secretly have more heart, passion, appreciation for the written language than Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison put together.
Posted By Imon
4 comments:
when we are passionate about but we like we become proficient. i like the story of the man who discovered 409 it took him 409 times to the product to a point of cleaning perfection. too often we abandon ship too soon. (can we say suzuki violin, training wheels)
Art and science are one in the same both require observation, experimentation and being open to change
Id rather be good at just about anything but spelling... no one who is cool has ever been known for being good spellers:) Keep writing!
You got skills Imon!
Um...so what about fair writers who support your cause....will our lives be spared??
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