writing is not hard
Writing is not hard.
Putting words on pages, one after another, is not hard.
They’re just words; words made of letters. the same 26 letters over and over again.
Letters make words; hundreds of thousands of words.
Words make sentences; millions or more possible sentences: subject-verb, subject-verb-object, etc.
Sentences make paragraphs; billions of paragraphs, maybe an infinite number.
Paragraphs make stories; stories about morning coffee, a favorite unicorn, the 1997 World Series, birth, unemployment, a diamond heist, space colonization.
A million stories per person, per day.
Writing is not hard.
March 20th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Convincing yourself or someone else? I think it’s fair to say that writing isn’t hard but I think finding the motivation and what to write about can be harder than the actual writing. The forming of letters to sentences, sentences to paragraphs and so on can certainly become rudimentary and mechanical based on the set of rules passed down by the grammar gods. Still doesn’t mean anyone and everyone can sit down and do it well.
March 20th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Trying to convince myself, but it’s also supposed to be an illustration of how my brain works. This is how easily I get overwhelmed.
My problem has never been coming up with ideas of what to write. I have file drawers worth of those. My problem has always been taking the time to sit down and put the words on the paper, one at a time.