Monday, October 19, 2009
Your mother likes my writing
So, I waited until the last minute to write my blog. I don't really think that I have too much to say about my writing. Basically, I dont really think Ive gotten much better since the last blog I wrote. I feel like I had that false sense of security and misconception about my writing. I mean for instance, I thought I wrote a nearly perfect travel essay. I really enjoyed writing it, until I saw all the shit that I needed to revise. Then I realized yet again, that my writing on this paper sucked too. I had said last week that my punctuation was getting better, but apparantely I can't punctuate dialogue to save my life. I am very dissapointed in the way that my writing is going right now. I think that I should be advancing a lot better and a lot faster than I am. I used to consider myself a well-rounded and good writer until I got older, and saw all the real standards of writing. Plus, I am kind of pissed that I can't express myself the way I want to. I can't use the F-bomb when I want to. This may not seem like a big deal to most people but I'm just trying to get a point across. I believe this is Chad's blog, not Kayleigh's blog, Rodney's blog, Derick's blog, Stephanie's blog, Jesus' blog. I'm just using names as an example, so don't freak out everybody. LOL. I'm writing these blogs for me not to please you. I'm not trying to be an asshole but sometimes using the words some people don't like helps me express my writing. I'm a very dramatic and outspoken writer at times. I believe freedom of speech is my constitutional right, and nobody is forcing you to read my blogs. I understand even now that if I was writing in a professional stting that myabe this wouldn't be as appropriate, but I believe the whole point of me writing these blogs is to express myself. If I have to express myself up to someone elses standards, what it the point of even doing them? Nobody told Tom Clany or Stephen King what words they could or couldn't use when writing. Wow....I think my ranting and being pissed off is probably the best writing i've done this semester.
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I couldn't agree with you more about censoring our blogs. If people don't want want to hear "bad" language that is their choice, but others should still be free to express their thoughts however they see fit. Maybe we should make a rule that if our blog has swearing, we have to put an asterisk or something after the title. That way people would know the occasional "shit" or "ass" may occur and if they don't want to read it then don't open the blog. That's just my opinion, because I feel you are right by saying being limited on what you can write can take away from the writing itself.
ReplyDeleteHOLD THE PHONE. I feel like somehow I've come across as Big Brother, all worried about censoring you. That was not my intention, and believe me, I don't feel that way.
ReplyDeleteIf you didn't have lots of things to work on after a first draft, then I wouldn't be doing my job, would I? Everyone has lots of revisions to make, always. That's just the way the process works.
Point well taken, Jack. I like the idea of "rating" our blogs with an asterisk. What do the rest of you think?
BTW, Chad! Don't give up the faith, man! You're doing great work. You're here to grow and to learn...that might mean rethinking some of our past ways of going about the work of writing.