I realize that my posts are pretty awful right now. Very introspective, and probably interesting to noone but me. They will get better, I promise. I’m in the process of finding my voice. While I do so, I’m operating under the assumption that it’s better to write something crappy than nothing at all. I *have* to do so, under the terms of the blogpact.
Part of the problem, I think, is that I’m not really in creative mode right now. My goals are learning a new programming language, studying algorithms and programming in general, getting better at guitar, and learning a new natural language. None of these really give me something to write about. If I was making a cool new thing, I could show the world the cool new thing I had made.
Nevertheless, even without going into creative mode, or without getting out of the house much, I think I could learn to adjust my style to be more interesting to other people. It’s probably about telling stories, which is not something I do naturally.
Probably the best thing for my writing would be to take a little time and plan out a post: not just barrel into it and start writing. Now that the pressure’s off on the writing, because I have seven days to plan my next post, maybe I can do that.
I’m pretty good at editing other people’s writing. I think I get that from my father and my grandmother. My grandmother is 96, and she wrote me an email today, telling me that she had found a funny juxtaposition in my thank you note to her. “Thank you for the nuts. My parents are here in San Francisco and we are eating them with pleasure.”