Some Words

Lore, formerly of Brunching Shuttlecocks, fielded the old question, “how can I be a writer too?” He does as good a job of laying it out as anyone. In fact he may be a bit more honest about it than most. My one complaint is that I don’t think he stresses practice enough. He does tell people to write all the time, but it seems to be in the service of getting your name out. He may be right, he’s a lot more successful than I am right now.

Still, one part of practice is learning to edit your own work. Being able to look at a sentence you’ve written, and know if it is readable, is very important. Self editing is not an innate talent. It is something that can be learned. Every time you edit something and think, “Wow, that sounds horrible, I should change that,” you come out on the other end a better writer (provided, of course, that you’re not just being paranoid). Just make sure the new sentence is better.

At least that’s what I tell myself.

I’m sure Lore feels something similar, and he just didn’t touch on it in his post, but I figured I’d point it out myself, to both of my readers.

And just to sweeten the pot a little, have some inspiration, courtesy of Daily Dino Comics.