On writing

I want my style to be clear and simple and my ideas to be good. If you have a basic idea of what you want to say and if it has wisdom in it, then embellishing it with fancy words is not worth it. Wasting your time thinking about how you will embellish your words to not repeat yourself is even more counterintuitive.

I want to write clearly. I believe if I can get over the limitation introduced by trying to incorporate embellishments into language via thick vocabulary or thinking too much about how a sentence will sound, I shall never finish anything or forget about finishing something, but I wont finish the sentence either. I want to be able to get over that writers block and i’ve read or heard sometime that the best way to do that is dumping the first thought that comes to your mind thinking you will scrap the page.

I guess this method shall be effective but only to get over the writers block. I want to gain expertise in writing beyond just writing for writing’s sake. I want to see the world, read, explore, experience and store my experiences as my memory fades. I want to do it in a way that is enjoyable when i recollect those experiences, just like my dad did with our photo collection for our family. I remember he would diligently keep them. I would want to do the same with writings. I hope i achieve the level of writing where my writing creates more imagery than an image from an iphone from today. The realistic self in me thinks pessimistic of myself to be able to do that. The idealistic of me is still sleeping, suffering from the writers block.

But I want to write. I want to capture the experiences my mind is going through, through times. I want to inspire myself when I might need myself sometime. I want to remind myself of the experiences seen so far and how it all can be alright. It takes a while to achieve peace but you get there. Climb indefatigably, at the top, there is fresh air and the most beautiful view on earth.

I want to journal and record purely for myself. That also relieves me majorly from the pressure of keeping the narcissistic tendency of pleasing an audience with my writing (which often I would do with convolutedly created sentences that were just dense) but Im writing for myself so i can just write my thought. I am no baron, i am no Shakespeare nor could I be and nor shall I strive to become. That frees me to be a philosopher writer. A person who is exploring his own truth, his own thoughts on the truth and record them, for himself. At least for an older version of himself.

So, on writing, I shall say, I will keep doing it. Keep it simple. Write wherever I can, write however I can but writer for sure and make a habit of thinking and writing. Need to be more aware and conscious.