De-versifying Writing

I know my blog has gone AWOL the past few months. It's not just The Block keeping me company this time round, but I've also been brainstorming on the right topic and timing for what I'm about to discuss in short. Recently, I've encountered a few blogs and... well, let's just say what I read was a bit of an eyesore. It wasn't that they revolved around boring topics—most of them were though—but it was the way the writing was constructed that caught my attention.

Most people I encounter, once I tell them I want to become a writer, point out that I'm being “safe” about my career choice, that writing “is easy”. Brainstorming, jotting down points, adding a few, removing several of them, draft copy, more adding and removing of points, final copy, publish. It all seems so easy right? Until that moment you re-read what you'd just written and pinpoint the flaws: a typo here, a grammatical mistake there, misplaced sentences... And the worst part is when this great idea pops in your head and it's too late to add it to what you wrote, because it's out there, it's already seen.

Because you what's done cannot be undone.

This is why I've decided it's best to wait and brainstorm until I actually post something that makes sense (even though what I’d just written might not make sense when I post and re-read it in the future). It takes time to plan, and it takes even longer to actually start writing, because it's easy to think and brainstorm, but when it comes to writing everything down... that's a whole different story.