Some people believe that a writer knows how to use grammar.
This assumption is incorrect. I don’t know how to structure a sentence. I write what feels right to me.
I wasn’t particularly interested in English as a school subject until we started reading poetry. I wrote my first poem at sixteen. It was a description of swimming above the dam at Dawt Mill before the new owners closed everything off and started charging two arms and legs to utilize their facilities. Ah, the good ole days.
I remember diagramming sentences in school and being somewhat decent at it; however, like I said, I wasn’t interested in the subject. I only knew that I loved to write.
I had a journal in a tiny notebook with a camouflage cover. When I was twelve, I placed it, along with some other treasures, inside a tin can. I dug a hole six inches deep in a field, twelve steps from a burn pile, and buried the canister.
All of my writings are eroded by now. That was a dumb move on my part.
So I’ve always lived to write. But here’s the issue: I like to write but dislike editing.
Did you know that the majority of writers in the world today are not editors?
They write their ideas in the form of an outline and flesh out the major and minor points. They send the manuscript to an editor to fix all the improper punctuation and misspellings.
Writers are not editors. They can be, but most aren’t. Writers are ordinary people who have a story to tell. We can look at the long list of New York Times best sellers; these are people with knowledge and imagination. These people either concoct a story or have lived through experiences they believe are worth telling.
Editors make their stories flow so others can read them with the proper pauses and feelings. It would be torturous to read a book without commas or apostrophes. I would rather die.
Anyone can be a writer because everyone has a story to tell. Everyone has at least one good book in them. But they shouldn’t publish anything without running it by an editor.
Because, not. doing /so wuold bee eckstreemlee detramentool.
to those with stories of their own,
– Caleb
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