Writing frustrations
May. 11th, 2022 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citruzyI am a bad writer.
Whenever I try putting my thoughts and feelings into words my mind just blanks out. It doesn't even make sense, since I'm not one of those people who thinks in concepts, I have a constant monologue going on in my mind at all times. The problem is that this constant string of thoughts tend to be incoherent and lack a natural flow that actually looks good when written down. My words and sentences come in little spurts with no clear direction, and it's really hard to find the beginnings and endings which I need to connect. It's no wonder that Twitter's character limit felt like a comfortable crutch for me to lean on.
Now, I don't know if I gravitated towards Twitter because of this predesposition, or if I developed this way of thinking because of my getting used to the Tweet format. Either way, Twitter is truly a detriment to the me who wants to become a better writer and a more eloquent speaker. There is an immediate gratification to instantly getting out your thoughts to the world, much like reacting live, instead of just sitting down and being alone with them for a while, letting the ideas and arguments and conclusions form and develop naturally and only then writing them down in a longer, more detailed, more well explained post.
I am actually quite jealous of the people who were able to use forums, Livejournal, and even Tumblr as their main forms of social media, what with their lack of character limits inspiring people to write long detailed essays on say, a really good show they just watched. While I cannot be sure that growing up on these sites would have turned me into a more articulate person, it would have at least made me try.
But this Dreamwidth account is me trying. Trying to regain all the literacy I lost to the instantaneous communication that Twitter provided. (lol that sounds so dramatic I just want to write better, literally that's it)
Whenever I try putting my thoughts and feelings into words my mind just blanks out. It doesn't even make sense, since I'm not one of those people who thinks in concepts, I have a constant monologue going on in my mind at all times. The problem is that this constant string of thoughts tend to be incoherent and lack a natural flow that actually looks good when written down. My words and sentences come in little spurts with no clear direction, and it's really hard to find the beginnings and endings which I need to connect. It's no wonder that Twitter's character limit felt like a comfortable crutch for me to lean on.
Now, I don't know if I gravitated towards Twitter because of this predesposition, or if I developed this way of thinking because of my getting used to the Tweet format. Either way, Twitter is truly a detriment to the me who wants to become a better writer and a more eloquent speaker. There is an immediate gratification to instantly getting out your thoughts to the world, much like reacting live, instead of just sitting down and being alone with them for a while, letting the ideas and arguments and conclusions form and develop naturally and only then writing them down in a longer, more detailed, more well explained post.
I am actually quite jealous of the people who were able to use forums, Livejournal, and even Tumblr as their main forms of social media, what with their lack of character limits inspiring people to write long detailed essays on say, a really good show they just watched. While I cannot be sure that growing up on these sites would have turned me into a more articulate person, it would have at least made me try.
But this Dreamwidth account is me trying. Trying to regain all the literacy I lost to the instantaneous communication that Twitter provided. (lol that sounds so dramatic I just want to write better, literally that's it)
