My Life as a Writer

I love to write.  I love the flow of words.  I wish that I could put them together as well as the authors that I read do.  So, how do I write?  Blogging here occasionally.  Writing small posts on my school library blog.  But the majority of my writing is hidden in my journals.  There are my deepest thoughts, fears, joys and sorrows.  The writing there ebbs and flows.  Sometimes I write regularly and others days, weeks, or even months may drift by before I write again.  Before computer technology became mainstream, I wrote letters.  I have a box of letters that I received in high school and college from friends and family far and wide.  Rubber bands hold together the letters from each source.  (I know bad archiving technique!)  Once email came along, the letters stopped and the documentation is scattered across email addresses. 

I am annoyed by bad writing.  Call it the downside of technology or laziness or sloppiness.  Words that aren't used correctly because spell checker didn't catch the wrong use of there versus their.  The overuse of acronyms.  It's not just teenagers that do this.  I see it with college educated adults' posts on their social networking sites.  They don't think about what the words look like or how the post may read.  Use the edit or use the delete, but don't lose the art of writing.