You are what you write

I am so very impressed by the way some people write. Medium is just seething with talent — lots of great writing frequently coupled with impressive expertise in this or that. Many of the writers producing here seem to write easily, words flowing together to make beautiful sentences I can hear in my head. I assume this sensation is one of the pleasures of poetry. I’m finding that I like it. I never thought that I did before but I’m taking some pleasure in the poetry I find here — but there is nowhere near enough time to read all I would like to. When I first signed up here, I was asked to choose what interested me and I enthusiastically ticked all that appealed and now find myself being drowned in a surfeit of reading opportunafish.

I think my own writing is stuck in a mode that I guess you could call editorial because it is critical. I write comments better than I write articles and have written more commentary than posts. I think that there is more of myself in article writing and perhaps that is why I need to spend a long time comparing sentences in my head to find the best fit my context (a precious attitude to present myself attractively?). The very best possible accuracy of realized intent is what I always want and other considerations that come naturally to many writers do not occur to me. However, I am loaded with ideas for stories they just don’t get written and I think too many of them are autobiographical whereas I suspect I have some useful social commentary to share.