No, really. I love short sentences. I love putting little thoughts in parenthesis (because who doesn't want to hear my side notes?) I jump around from thought to thought. I expect (or hope) that my readers will follow what I'm saying (but if they take their own thing away, then I'm still satisfied). I love the power of threes. And I try to start at least five sentences with and in one post. Oh, and I love white space.
See what I mean?
Sometimes I think I missed my calling. I absolutely love what I do, but there is something that drives me to greater passion. And that is to disabuse the title of this blog.
I mean, you're still reading, aren't you? I can't be that awful, can I?
I can't tell you how many times I hear this in response to my declaration of authorship; English major; literary conquests. And I'll be honest - it literary breaks my heart. (see what I did there?)
I don't blame you. Our harshest critics are the voices in our heads. I am constantly arguing with mine, bouncing from over confidence, to "meh", to anguish. As dad says, "on my best days, I am 51% sure of myself". But I digress.
You are an amazing author. Do you want to know why? Because what makes a writer a good writer is shared experience, not perfection. We are communal creatures, and our greatest fears are simultaneously the fear of rejection and the fear of loneliness. We want to share our feelings because we want to know that we aren't alone in them.
But our fear of rejection prevents us from sharing experience.
A writer need not follow the rules. What a writer needs more than "writing" ability is courage.
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