Guidelines
May. 29th, 2012 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mastergraywolfA new TAG. I got a bit of blogging to do.
Memorial Day (U.S) passed. I wanted to get back on United We Soar but I'm still beating myself up.
This has been happening a lot. The more I think about how my writing style is terrible, the more it'll hinder me to return to my works, and the more I will think that I need to read up on guidelines. But will I remember? That's another worry of mine. I wonder if I can identify my mistakes and even others (say, if I wanted to do beta reading).
How should I say? The technicalities of grammar are not my strong point. I can write a sentence unconsciously but can't remember the rules of it. School was long ago. I didn't pursue writing (and reading) and did not stay fresh in it, but my passion makes me want to revise my mistakes.
Maybe I am impatient? And I hate having to look back and see many mistakes that I should fix? Takes up too much time?
Anyways, how to deal with my writing insecurities?
Let's start with the basics. Under the tag, "Technicalities of writing" are entries pertaining to sentence problems, use of punctuation, pretentious language, spelling and punctuation mechanics, etc. Anything that can help me. Anything in linguistics.
The tag "literature:writing" is for entries on anything about writing art, but there isn't much direction.
Also, for now on, I'll do "Word of the Day" and "History of the Day" on Twitter. That'll keep it active.
Memorial Day (U.S) passed. I wanted to get back on United We Soar but I'm still beating myself up.
This has been happening a lot. The more I think about how my writing style is terrible, the more it'll hinder me to return to my works, and the more I will think that I need to read up on guidelines. But will I remember? That's another worry of mine. I wonder if I can identify my mistakes and even others (say, if I wanted to do beta reading).
How should I say? The technicalities of grammar are not my strong point. I can write a sentence unconsciously but can't remember the rules of it. School was long ago. I didn't pursue writing (and reading) and did not stay fresh in it, but my passion makes me want to revise my mistakes.
Maybe I am impatient? And I hate having to look back and see many mistakes that I should fix? Takes up too much time?
Anyways, how to deal with my writing insecurities?
Let's start with the basics. Under the tag, "Technicalities of writing" are entries pertaining to sentence problems, use of punctuation, pretentious language, spelling and punctuation mechanics, etc. Anything that can help me. Anything in linguistics.
The tag "literature:writing" is for entries on anything about writing art, but there isn't much direction.
Also, for now on, I'll do "Word of the Day" and "History of the Day" on Twitter. That'll keep it active.
