writing is life

Writing to most people, is living. It is almost impossible to go a day without writing at all. I know for me, writing is essential. Writing conveys who I am, whether it be writing in class, writing on face book to my friends, writing in a text message, or writing to myself in a journal. Writing is a way of expressing myself to others and even myself. I am the type of person that has many things to do and not enough time to do it all. I like to cram a lot of things in my day, and so I don’t always get the things done that I want to get done. I am the same way in my writing. I always have so much to say, and write about, that I don’t know how to fit it all in to whatever it is that I am writing at the time. Not knowing how to fit everything I want to say into my writing happens in everything I write.

When I am writing for school, I sit in my room for long periods of time just thinking about what I want to say. When I finally feel like I can start writing I type far less than everything I am thinking in my head. It is so strange to me how it happens, but I just can’t get everything I am thinking on to paper. When I am finally done with the entire paper, I read over my work and find many things wrong with my writing. I always feel like I’ve left out too much information. When I try to go back and enter in things that I have forgotten, it seems like I’m trying too hard and end up with incomplete thoughts. I have to be on a roll to get in everything I want to say.

When I write on my own in a journal, or actually just a cheap notebook, I find that I still can’t fit in everything that I want to say. My thinking processes are very detailed and I can never fit in all of the details that are in my head. Even though I know I’m talking to myself in a journal and don’t need to specify things that I already know, I do it anyways. It’s such an odd thing to do. I will be writing about a person that I know, such as a family member and I will end up writing, “…and allison, who is my cousin, and is 18 years old…” and therefore lose quality on the more important details of what I am thinking. Although, the writing I do in my own journal is much more laid back than the writing I do for school.

In all, my thinking is very detailed and complex, and my writing is just bits and pieces of my thought process. I hope to become a better writer, in that I can write out more details.