The subject of writing comes up in our house fairly often. With Baby Girl home we have three writers in residence. If you overheard our conversations you would think we were the most humble bunch on the planet as we all claim the other two have superior writing skills. It is almost comical.
So enough of the comedy. Once and for all, I'll take the credit where credit is due. Here goes...I am unequivocally the least of the writers in our home. While I am understandably biased, I believe Beth to be an amazing young writer who will continue to improve as she keeps writing. I would have loved to compose thought the way she can when I was in my early twenties. Denine not only writes well, but has exceptional skills with grammar, spelling, and editing. She far underestimates her ability to produce great writing.
For me, I can not tell you how many ideas I mull over and then toss on the scrap heap because I can not put them into words that make sense. The photo above illustrates my main writing technique. And there is the fact that some of the good idea pile turns out to not be such a good idea after it is completed and posted.
When I do write I have several methods and parameters that I use to help keep the writing on target. Then I run spell check because I am a terrible speller and then I look for grammar mistakes. Still, there is no guarantee that the spelling and grammar will be completely on the mark in any of my posts.
On the plus side, I am surprised with how many people check in on my blog regularly. Just about anytime I think about giving up the writing I receive a few words of encouragement. You guys are the best. You must be saints. I appreciate it. Given time, someday I may not even be a caveman anymore.
Peace, Love, and Words
Zig
PS: I've considered doing a regular post using a drawing to illustrate the concept. As you can tell with the illustration above, that it was a scrap heap idea.