July 07, 2003

Why 4 Bad grammar

if you wonder why i frequently seem A) Illiterate B) Juvenile C) English Is Not My Native Language D) On Drugs E) Just Plain Stupid F) All The Above, here is why...creative writing is not a natural thing for me in any way...i never completed an english comp class in school...i have a strange learning disability which makes reading and writing cursive impossible to read for me....stuff moves light years faster in my head than my best possible typing/writing speed causing me to frequently run words together, etc...and i spent 15 plus years as a technical writer in the mobile communications industry

my technical writing is outstanding, but writing skills that work well for service manuals, technical training and test plans don't work for creative writings...i found that for this sort of stuff, i must just let the words flow as they will, and that if i edit much or at all, it becomes stilted and mechanical....i also was wasting so much time thinking about punctuation and capitalization, that i decided to blow it off completely....i do use some commas , quotes, apostrophes, and parens, but not much else...multiple periods are end of sentance/thought/whatever

i am actually well educated, very literate, and able to properly use the language when it suits me...i love to debate, and can construct an argument with the best of them...anooyh me and you may find out just how well i can disect a statement, and critique it to death...hopew this clears up any confusion...if not maybe i will try again later

Posted by Angstman at July 7, 2003 12:51 PM | TrackBack
Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?