Tuesday, September 11, 2007

My Writing Style

When I write, I am like rain. Now that may not make sense right away, but stop and think about this: rain can be either nice and soft and comforting, or it can be dark and heavy and damaging. My writing style is just as unpredictable. Just like with a rainstorm, before it begins it's sometimes difficult to tell what it's going to be like. With some writing projects, I'm organized, efficient, and have a clear outline and path to follow, which could be compared to the nice, soft rain. Other times, however, it is disorganzed, all over the place, and has no clear direction or purpose. I'm just trying to get my ideas down on paper so I don't leave anything out and worry about the cleanup later on. I compare this to the hard, heavy, damaging rain that brings a flood. The rain comes fast and leaves a mess to be cleaned up later on. And sometimes when I'm writing, I'm not always very clear or I make my paper too long by putting in too many details, but other times I don't add enough. That could be compared to the length of a rainshower. Then we work through it clean it up and organize it and it all turns out well and looks good. In my mind it just makes sense. I find that most things make sense in my head but not as much when I try to explain them. For the most part, I really like writing, even research papers. But I can't say my writing style is anything noteworthy. It really varies depending on what I'm writing. The only thing that I can say for sure about it is that it changes and is unpredictable, just like the rain.

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