Once when I was in high school, I was in my ENC: 1102 class after coming off an almost failed previous semester that I was looking for, the god send if you will he told me one day during one of our writing assignments that he knew I could write but all of the assignments that he had seen from me felt so empty. If I’m being honest my writing was empty and flat and that was because I was so concerned about my writing being grammatically correct rather than having my writing mean something.
that the biggest thing that I want to convey in this editorial is that the weight of what you’re saying is what people want to feel. People who read are not going to feel the weight of how you used you’re instead of you are, they are going to feel the weight of the conviction of what you are writing and the fact that you care about you’re writing. I feel that a lot of the writing that is going to come through a slush pile is going to be so sterile feeling and too clean. In my opinion I want to read something that is real and means something to the person who created that, and I can feel that real feeling as I read it.
When you were a kid in grade school there was always a point no matter how much you loved writing that you would hate having to learn the writing skills you just wanted to write and put your thoughts on paper. When I was in high school I wrote about a few things that were very important to me at the time, things that were so hard to talk about that I had to write them down like family issues and also issues in my community. These issues were so important to me that you could see that they hurt me so much there was such a rawness in my writing that actually showed people that I had something important to say that is why I want to write and you should too.
So, I will leave you with this have you ever decided to read a grammatical handbook for pleasure? You will read the handbook for the skills not for you to feel something. You need to get back to the basics of writing and write about what is important not what you feel is going to catch the eyes.