It's been exactly one week since my last post. Writing does not come so easily for me and I have to make more of an effort to do it everyday. Whether it's playing tennis or learning a new language, practice does make it better. And writing is no exception. I really admire great writers, the ability to string together ordinary words and make it come alive. To make you feel something, to stir emotions, to take you to a place you've never been. So now I'm starting to re-learn all the stuff I learned in junior high and high school about sentence structure and grammar. So many of us keep making the same writing mistakes because as adults no one corrects us. As I write this, there's probably numerous errors that would make an editor's pen run out ink. Well, maybe not yet. Anyway I want to share a paragraph written by William Zinsser of the American Scholar about writing a memoir since I'm attempting to take a crack at it. This piece inspired to tell my story even if it will take a long time, because I do have a story to tell.
"It can also be an act of healing for you. If you make an honest transaction with your own humility and with the humanity of the people who crossed your life, no matter how much pain they caused then, readers will connect with your journey." Yes, there's that word journey again. Seems to resurface quite often. It must be a sign of good things to come!
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