Writing

04/09/2008

 

This will more than likely be a rather short blog. I just feel the need to set a few things straight. It seems the more I write and the more I post on bulletin boards the more I get myself into trouble. I am not a very good writer. I write like I talk which is not good because I do not convey what I mean in the written word as well as I do in the spoken word.

 

I went through graduate school and had problems because I always tend to go off on a tangent. I can get way off topic and get everyone including myself very confused at what I am talking about. My grammar skills are very poor as well. While I can do these things I tend to write very fast and I tend to give what I wrote a once look over then I post it. Very rarely do I correct what I have written because I know what I mean I automatically assume the reader knows what I mean.

 

I thank God that I had someone to help me out with my reports for grad school. He would edit my papers for me and tell me where I was going wrong and make me do it over and over again until I finally got it perfect. Nothing but perfect was acceptable. I knew this and I was able to do it after several attempts and with some help. But it didn’t stick with me. I am back to the poor writing again. I put periods and comma’s where they don’t belong and I don’t put them where they do belong. I make run on sentences and I have a lot of hanging participles.

 

I don’t know if I can change my writing style but I will like to try and at least improve upon it. It is frustrating when I get comments or what I said gets taken out of context. But yet I can see how easily that can be done by my poor writing. I think my biggest problem is punctuation. And the worst part of the whole thing is I can be good at it. I am very good at noticing other’s mistakes but I can never seem to see my own.

 

I do also have a bad habit of going off topic when I’m talking too. It seems I’ll end up somewhere that I have no idea what I’m talking about. Neither does the person I’m talking to. Or I switch topics in the middle of a conversation without warning and the person thinks I’m still on the first topic when I have already moved onto the next. I don’t know why this is or what it is called. I don’t know if it is a nerves response because I have a problem communicating with people for fear of saying the wrong things. Or if it is because I talk too fast or maybe my brain goes faster than the words come out. I really don’t know the reason I do it but I would like to try and stop doing it. Especially in this day and age of writing. Writing blogs writing posts and posting them. Like I said at the beginning what I say gets misinterpreted quite often and it gets very frustrating. When the solution is fairly easy if I would just sit back and take a little time and go over what I wrote with a fine tooth comb. I guess that is just being lazy, I don’t know.

 

So if you follow my blogs at all and you find that I have drifted topics you’ll at least know that it is a normal thing for me to do. Also if I’m writing a blog and I get way off topic and forget what I started talking about you can always leave a comment and say Corey you didn’t finish what you started. While I hate criticism, I hate being misinterpreted even more so. So if I ever write something that doesn’t seem to make much sense, please ask me about it. I’m quite sure that I can explain what I was talking about.

 

I like writing blogs and want to continue doing them. I also like posting on forums and want to continue doing that as well. But if I keep going at the rate I’m going I’m going to end up being banned from all the forums I belong to because I seem to always say the wrong things and get people pissed off. I am hoping that by writing blogs it will help improve my writing skills. I have no idea how I managed a 4.0 in grad school with such poor writing skills except for the help of one friend. He was persistent and didn’t take any excuses from me he would make me rewrite and rewrite until my paper was perfect. And I realize that is just something I’m not going to get from anybody just for writing a blog. So I’m going to have to learn to do it myself.

 

I am a very opinionated man and I always have a lot to say about any given subject that I am interested in. So I enjoy writing about things but once again I hate being misquoted or have my words taken out of context. So I am going to have to learn to write better. And as usual it’s late so I’m just going to post this without anything but a quick once over. So hopefully I have written a well blog. I tried to be careful because I knew it was late and I knew I wouldn’t spend the time going over it.

 

So, for now…