One reason I started this blog was to explore this new media thing. I was interested in how this worked. I had already made static webpages, but this was something new. I enjoyed slogging thru the process of installing and setting up a fresh WordPress blog. It caused me to learn how it all fit together.
Another reason was to try and get myself to write more. I have never been comfortable with writing. If you knew me in Highschool you would have said I was not comfortable talking to people. I was always very quiet and it took me a long time to warm up and feel comfortable expressing myself. Which in high school is hard anyway.
But nowadays, I have more confidence in putting words on the page. I just have to figure out a system to make it more efficient. I have lots of typos and then I go and correct them, which messes up my train of thought sometimes. Also I need to work out a regimen so that I actually write more. It seems to slip down the priority list with family, and work taking up time. Plus I need to stop wasting time on other stuff.
But as I find myself doing less designing at school, I need to have a place to put my creative energies. Maybe I can do that here…
I also had a hard time writing and expressing my self. The ability to convert thought and speech to the written word. is more than just streaming the conscious mind down into the writting. I know that I could never memorize passages and in a large part spelling. The English language in derived from so many languages that there isn’t phonic , so you can sound out at work and spell then in that way. It is that good memorization that is required. I have had the same problem, although concepts, ideas and visual patterns are not a problem for my mind. Rote memorization is not something that my mind wants to do, it doesn’t want to have standard locations of files of minutiae that can be retrieved Instantly. It becomes frustrating to be hung up on a spelling of a word, that even Spell Check can’t recognize what you are try to spell. So a physical dictionary is necessary to go through to find the work and its spelling. And looking from one word in the dictionary to the next ,I can loose track of the word I’m looking for. So, yes, writing can be difficult to keep the flow of thought moving.
Jim