Arr, enough with the pretense and high-horsing already!
I'm sick of pretending to be who I'm not! For so long I've been trying to put up a facade, a false appearance of unmatched aptitude in English. Using such bombastic crackers as effulgence, miniscule, expedient, exacerbated, etc. etc... thinking that it shows my "mastery" of English, when simpler words like radiance, small, useful, worsened, etc. would do just fine.
It's been like a vice stifling my creativity, this horrible pride of mine. My unwillingness to "go with the flow", to be "ordinary"...it's just plain revolting.
Now, don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm giving up on trying to write well. It's just that I've given up being intentionally blurry to give an illusion of greatness. Sigh...
With that aside, I must say that it's pretty tough going writing with almost no one listening. I know of only a few of my friends and family who have obligingly visited this blog (Thanks, guys!!), but my comments box is still empty. It kind of defeats the purpose of my setting up this blog: to receive feedback on my writing. I want to know what others think about my ability to write. It's important to me because writing is the skill that I would like to use to earn my bread.
But I guess it might be because my blog is still new. Oh well, time will tell.
It's been like a vice stifling my creativity, this horrible pride of mine. My unwillingness to "go with the flow", to be "ordinary"...it's just plain revolting.
Now, don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm giving up on trying to write well. It's just that I've given up being intentionally blurry to give an illusion of greatness. Sigh...
With that aside, I must say that it's pretty tough going writing with almost no one listening. I know of only a few of my friends and family who have obligingly visited this blog (Thanks, guys!!), but my comments box is still empty. It kind of defeats the purpose of my setting up this blog: to receive feedback on my writing. I want to know what others think about my ability to write. It's important to me because writing is the skill that I would like to use to earn my bread.
But I guess it might be because my blog is still new. Oh well, time will tell.
posted by Joel Chan at
4:43 AM
1 Comments:
This is the second one I have written tonight. Don't worry, I don't intend to flood you with comments, I just felt like I needed to say something here.
Firstly, with regard to writing, you should never be ashamed to express yourself, be it in over-the-moon words which nobody can understand or plain simple English or whatever language you feel like writing in. However, it would obviously be an advantage if people could relate to what you write, therefore it would be advisable to make your creativeness as user-friendly as possible. Like in my previous post, the desire to be different from everyone else for the wrong reasons is and can be a form of hypocrisy so you only need to guard against that. Other than that, feel free to say what you feel. Nobody told Shakespeare that he needed to write so that everybody could understand and yet his work is considered by most people as creative genius. For an analogy closer to home, the decisions of old and ailing judges in the law textbooks that I read are NEVER easy to understand and yet they become the precedents in deciding later cases.
Secondly, don't ever give up writing if it is something that you love to do. Regardless of whether people read or appreciate it, continue faithfully. It's true that sometimes the going gets tough, but when that happens, I'm sure you're tough enough to get going. Pretty cliche I know, but it's the truth. And if you intend to make this your rice-bowl, all the more you should persist unrelentlestly. Who knows, you may be a great writer some day. How true, time will indeed tell.
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