🍓super ddalgi🍓@AtinyBitSweet
a few things i’ve done on my hiatus in hopes of improving my writing:
- i watched an absurd amount of eng lit videos, specifically focused on grammar (pray for me)
- i also read quite a few articles on writing and compiled a small list of references
- i actively read and annotated a couple books as well as reread a few shakespearean plays
- i wrote. a lot. and when i mean a lot, i mean there have been very few days I haven’t been able to write, and on those days, i literally felt antsy not doing it so
- now that i have kind of established a new foundation—a baseline, if you will—for my writing, i’ve noticed that, at times, my prose can start to feel… manufactured? like, very cookie-cutter literary. which, if you’ve read my works for a while, know i favor a more poetic, embellished style heavily influenced by slam poets like katie makkai, by poe, by maya angelou, by pierce the veil. so, i am trying to reclaim that style and incorporate it back in
- i have adjusted my approach to editing. i am no longer leaning into a “less is more” mindset. instead, i am trusting my gut and pursuing what i think feels right to the best of my abilities. which means i am also learning to pivot when something feels wrong
- i have shared my new writing and works with very few people. that’s not my note for improving, but i am deeply appreciative of those select few who have continued to encourage and support me. rather, what i want to improve on is my courage—to share my works again, to trust that people will still like and enjoy my writing. which brings me to my next point:
- i am still learning to be bad at writing. i do this as a passion, as a hobby, as a hope and dream, and i share it for free. it is okay if i suck sometimes, or even all the time. no one said i have to be good at this. which means, for all the people who have or might comment that i’m “not as good as i think i am” or that my writing is “mid at best” or “ai” or “predictable and boring”—who cares? why does it matter so much to you that i meet your expectations? or—that’s the mindset i keep trying to instill in myself