The Evolution of Style and Voice
My writing is simple. Way too
simple. I am not daring enough, and I
don't always use my own voice, which I find did not change much over the
summer. I think that it
my writing has changed , but I
believe what might be holding me back is a fear of opening up too much raw pain
in my writing. in the past all of my
writing has been journal writing which my husband hopes I burn before I
die. There was a lot of angst in those
journals and not a lot of joy. I believe
I used them as a tool to survive being a young mother without a lot of money or
love in my life. I spend a lot of time
angry at my husband for the situation I found myself in. There were pure moments of joy, but more
often sadness. I believe that the writing
that we were asked to do this summer was based on wonderful exercises and
prompts, but I feel that I may have holding back because I didn't want to let
go.
My style is in it's infancy and I need to make it grow up, I note that I
have a terrible time with making sure that I am using consistent tense. This is odd since I spend a lot of time
instructing students in how to avoid confusing tenses in their writing. As far as conventions of writing go, I don't
have a hard time with spelling or vocabulary, but I do flounder a bit with
grammar and that is very embarrassing for a teacher to admit.
Words just fly right out of me, but when I stop to look at what I have
written it's disappointing and I judge myself harshly.
I am going to make a huge effort to continue writing and blogging and
getting over these issues.