Sunday, October 01, 2006

About the blogs 2

There's also the fact that I like writing, just in general. Especially on the computer. Usually in the sort of diary format common to blogs. I've done it for a while on and off, but decided to start doing this blog after I lost a useful and expressive piece of writing about a girl recently, when I turned off my computer without saving, which I cannot in good conscience attempt to recreate.
In keeping with my natural talent at English and the ease with which things like spelling just gel in my head, my love of long words and abstruse vocabulary yet also of concise and cutting explanations, and my love of other people's good writing, I like to try my hand at writing myself occasionally. I also tend towards the lengthier end of the sentence spectrum.

When you factor in the problem I have with maintaining this efficient use of language in real time, during an actual conversation, this may seem slightly weird, but - have you guessed what's coming? - the difference is that it's that much easier to express yourself when you have time to think and an edit function. Even if I do tend to write in one long stream rather than in carefully considered fragments, I have more time to consider my writing than my speaking. A corollorary problem is that my high speed brain and insufficient attention span often conspire to distract me from what I was planning to say and I find myself heading down unplanned if not entirely unexpected paths of thought, but since I write, like I said, in a stream when I'm doing this sort of personal reflection, I usually find that although I didn't write what I planned to write, I end up writing what I wanted to write. It's amazing how writing something down can help clarify one's internal position to oneself.

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