My Writing
My writing may start out very similar to this quote by E.L. Doctorow “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” Meaning that I only know as much as my next sentence maybe, and an overall plan for what you want to write about, but I don’t know exactly how I’m going to put it. Writing for my own personal journal is easier than writing stuff for school. When I write about stuff I know, it comes out easy, like a driving route I would take every day. Then there is when I’m writing papers for school and it feels like I’m in a huge white out winter storm. I know the bits and parts of what I’m going to write, but linking the information effectively is the part that’s like not being able to see landmarks that lets you know where to turn at. I write just as I would be talking about it to someone, face-to-face, then go back to make sure things make sense. Sometimes, remember it’s okay not to know exactly what you want to write about, just start writing, like the long summer road trips you would take with your family.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those people who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and gear which is inherent in a human situation.
~Graham Greene~