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| WRITING, SCHMYTING |  | Category: Rant
Monday, January 21st, 2002 @ 02:34 pm
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Writing comes more naturally when wearing yellow pants.
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I've been seeing really good examples of good writting recently, and its gotten me thinking: I'm not a very good writer. At all. Period. Its kind of humbling to see people weave words together to make the most fucked up analogies and imagery, but when I get my go at it on this site, its like my fingers just start farting out words as my brain comes up with them.
Now don't take my self-bashing too deeply. I think I hold my own when it comes to linking coherent sentences together to make an understable story; its just that I lack the wit I see in others, and that's where my shame lies. I read people craft their words in such a way it creates a mental image, that not only perfectly describes what they are talking about, but also makes you laugh so hard that that you buckle up in rip-roaring laughter, quivering, with liquid funny running out of several orifaces.
I've been wondering if its because I just don't have it, which I am totally willing to accept, or if its just because I don't spend enough time thinking about what I'm writing, and how to make it more clear/funny/ironic/etc.
While reading the Carrot Cake Soup story on Penny Arcade, which in my opinion is one damnned fine example of comedic writing, I had a sort of epiphany. Good writing doesn't have much to do with creative writing classes (I know, I've taken them in college), or being born with it. It means viewing what you write as being no different than telling a story to your friends, and trying to relay it in a way that will illicit a desirable response. I guess most people (me included) sit down to write something and approach it as if its a completely seperate entity than any other brand of expression (namely conversation), and end up producing something that is rather contrived sounding.
Now I'm not the one of wittiest guys on the planet, but I'd like to think I can point out a little o' the funny when I see it, and maybe even craft my own on certain occations. It just seems that when ever I endevour to place a nugget of funny in the written word, it comes out feeling kind of forced.
Anyway, this is not an attempt to receive pity, nor is it a pledge to write better. Its just a thought that's been bouncing around in my head for some time and I wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas about good writting.
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