I want to be a writer but I rarely take any steps towards accomplishing my goal. My writing up until now has been confined to my academic studies as a professional writing major and serving as an outlet for both personal therapy and my leisure amusement. I am undecided as to what field of writing I hope to specialize in. Thus, I have decided to start a b…b…blog. I have considered doing this before but in the past, I have always been deterred in disgust. Why? I feel that blogging is the most inappreciable form of writing and is considered rock bottom for any established writer. Fortunately for me, I am not an established writer.
My goal is to improve my writing and attempt to acquire an audience. This blog will motivate me to write frequently, improve my skills without endlessly drafting, and provide some entertainment for both myself and my readers. Primarily, I hope to narrow down my options and identify the genre of writing that yields the greatest balance of personal pleasure and excellence. However, before I begin, I feel it is necessary to outline the fundamental guidelines for which this blog will abide by.
1) I must not fall victim to the overuse of metaphors; they are awesome and sweet, poetic, intelligent, inspiring, romantic, cute and cuddly, but amateur writers often overuse metaphors and transform a very descriptive setting where some very simple and insignificant series of events occur, into a deceitful rising action that surmounts to nothing. It is like a joke with no punchline.
2) I must not write teen vampire fiction. That is all
3) I must, use perfect speling gramer and, punctuation!!! This obviously includes, avoiding seductive internet language w/ lazy abbreviations and other commonalities like the dot dot dot …bitches.
4) I must not string together unnecessary bulks of words to bedazzle my readers and gloat about my confidence as an aspiring writer by utilizing incoherent yet diverse vocabulary with the cunning intention to confuse while simultaneously and systematically, through the use of dispensable adverbs, rhetorically embellish the events and subject matter for which I frame my current piece of selected writing.
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I must not be wordy just to impress.
5) I must show and not tell.
That is all for now. Stay tuned for my first formal post sometime this weekend. It may be something I have written in the past and intend to share, or something new. I have not decided yet. I am also working on preparing an outline for my own 30 day writing challenge – where I write something different every day. It will be very interesting. I promise!
