It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. While I was mulling over what I should talk about when I finally started writing a new post for this blog of mine, I came to an interesting realization that I wanted to share: I’m bad at writing.
But I’m not trying to berate myself or anything. When I say that I’m bad at writing I mean that I’m lacking in so many important habits a good writer should have – one of which I’ll be addressing in a bit. I usually avoid talking about things like this because there’s always so much more that I can learn and I don’t like acting as if I know any better than the next person. But I thought I would lay out some of my thoughts now because of my second realization: I’m good at being bad at writing.
In the approximate eight months I’ve gone without publishing a new blog post, much to my disappointment, I’ve written very little. Though I’ve been pretty busy, I won’t pretend like it was completely impossible for me to write a few blog posts here and there. It takes like, 30 minutes? Even less if I stick to editing only once. But I decidedly did not write because I thought if I didn’t dedicate hours to writing, whatever I came up with would be bad. I fell into the trap of wanting only to write perfection. What’s worse is that I knew this is something you need to avoid at all costs. The only way to be a better writer is to write! Unless you’re naturally talented, you have to accept that whatever you produce is just going to be really bad for a while. It’s important to know that and keep writing anyway. I like to think that I’m always ready to accept failure, but without even realizing it I had become afraid of being bad. Of writing bad stories.
Going forward I’m going to be less afraid of producing bad work. Or at the very least I won’t let it get in the way of my writing. Because there’s no other way to improve other than to just write. Take it from me.
Scripted Journal 