On Writing
Writing is a craft that you lose if you don't keep practicing. I don't like losing things, and writing happens to make that list of things I do not want to lose. That is, of course, assuming that I "have" it, whatever that means. For the longest time, I used to believe that I am not good at writing. Then I started to doubt that thought like many of my opinions about myself. For example, I used to think that I don't have good intuition about anything. Then, I came to find out that I am actually pretty intuitive. I am just wary of notions and judgments, the logical origins of which I cannot fully explain to myself. Hence, I had not been listening to my intuitive judgments about people and situations since such judgments seemed arbitrary and unreasonable. My opinion about my own writing follows a similar pattern. I am no Jane Austen. Yet, I have this urge to write and moments of inspiration. I want to write because I want to express my truth. Writing has hel...