#write free

Zadie Smith warned us not to romanticize the writer's vocation: it's either you know how to weave good sentences or you don't. For certain this is no discouragement. It's both a privilege and a crusade -- exhausting, whichever way you look at it -- to write. The years that followed my high school years when my Cattleya notebook had been mangled -- no, defaced! -- are enough for me to be able to compile the following. If you want to be a writer, prepare to be misconstrued, taken out of context, dissected, maimed, and dismantled. You don't have to be the best grammarian, but fuck you for letting things slip! But most of all, prepare to be stroked hard very hard with everyone's 'oohs' and 'ahhs'. Whatever the fuck do those mean? Oohs and ahhs? If you are a writer and familiar of what I speak about, then you're probably not that good. You are one inch close to failure. And before you actually do it, fuck you for even thinking of playing the vocation card. To whine is your vocation, apparently. Not to write. If, however, you are among the few that refuse this alibi, then I un-"fuck you!", for whatever that means. Because you don't stop writing and you brave the storm of deadlines and the other "fuck yous" you receive on a daily basis. You don't stop until you actually like what you are leaving on the page. What dirt you leave the already dirty minds. So, when you think you are about to climax, it's ideal that you don't. There's only one peak. Writers never come too easily. Maybe never at all.

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Before I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up I wrote for the fun of it. Writing was simply my way if having a good time when my friends couldn't play, our when it was rainy. Now that I'm Pursuing a writing career I feel like my writing isn't add carefree as it used to. I wish I could just go back and feel that again. Feel the freedom of writing without thinking of an audience that might someday be.

I didn’t delete my old posts, just in case you were wondering if I am contradicting myself with this post. I have saved them for a place on the revamped site. I wish to make a distinction between before and after. Before, I was attempting to “establish” myself as someone and I used various tactics to do so. That doesn’t mean I was being dishonest or manipulative. I was just putting way too much thought into a blog that was only supposed to be about my writing journey and be a place for me to pour out all of my random thoughts so that my pointed thoughts could flow more freely into the book that I am writing. Would I like readers? Sure. But that isn’t the point of this for now. The point is the journey. Soon there will be sections of my site reserved for articles, essays, and more structures or intentional writing. But this, this bloggity blog right here, is for FREEDOM!