How have you evolved as a writer?

I have always loved to write. Whether I have been a good writer or not though is another thing. As I love to write I keep regular journals about my life, as simple as it is!! I must have at least two folders full of my writings dating back to 2002. What do I write about? I guess I write about my feelings, my thoughts, my disappointments and believe you me there are a lot of those!! The good thing about keep a diary though or a journal is the fact that you can look back on your writings and see how you have developed as a writer. Can anyone write? I guess so, the rule of the game is, just put pen to paper and write! Write about funny things, write about silly things, write about anything that takes your fancy. I think that there is truth in the saying that, if you write on a regular basis then there's a very good chance that you will constantly improve!!

Mimpi I'm a novice at writing and am finding it to be a new interesting and exciting way to express myself. Honestly i've taken the courage and the inspiration from the simple and powerful way that friends like you express yourself in your writings and articles. Well, i'm yet to reach the "Is that me syndrome". Rather it is at "Can i really write ? Am i making a fool of myself?

It's the opposite for me. I used to write very well when I was younger. Maybe it's lack of practice...but now I just can't get the right words. I prefer to keep things short and not use BIG words. But then I just seem lost when I need them and then I have to resport to long or incomplete explanations.

Hi Mimpi, I think when most people think back to what they were, they think they were stupid too. I am certainly no different. When nostalgia catches on, I will flip through my past writings too and geez, the language! I stand ashamed lol. Chances are high too that years later, I will look back at I am now and think I am stupid, supposing I had improved somehow in the future. Cheers!

My only recent evolution in writing is that I've slacked off...awwww. Just too many other interesting things to do. Just got a Triond notice in today's e-mail that reminds me it has been 4 weeks since I submitted anything there, and I have 14 articles on my Triond list of articles to write. Maybe their new thing where they let us save drafts on there will help. I hope so. It is silly to leave the stories in my head when with a small amount of effort they could become residual income.

I look at back at some of my poems when I was young and stories and I just wonder what was I thinking? It's kind of weird to read what I wrote back then. But then I notice that I have matured in my writting and have gotten a lot better at it. for me it's a good therapy to look back at what I have written because I get to see how I have evolved in my writing and as a person.

I am doing my best to perfect my writing style, but it is not easy. I will really have to master the English Language, and practic writing more professionally if I am to truly become great at it.

Good morning, dear mimpi. I have to say that I am not a good writer, who is able to express what I would like to freely, especially in the organization of the words. I find it brain-consuming on my side if I try to write something satisfactory to me. Anyway I am still trying to be a good writer. Happy posting, dear friend. Good day.

Hi Mimipi, I can join my letters together now but that about it really as I'm not really a writer. Huggles. Ellie :D

I think I am evolving. Of course I have my good days and my bad days,but there is nothing I can do about that.My Fibro. flairs up,but I try to keep going the best I can. I just try to be as honest as I can and follow the rules here at my lot and I think I will eventually evolve just fine.

Practice makes a man perfect you might have listened or read. This what with you.You have been a casual writer and now you have a frequent writer. You have learned the tactics of writing a article. You will certain view your earlier writings in a different way.

I also had the same feelings when I check my old blog back in 2006. Since it was the year when my emotions are really unpredictable, my blog entries were really incoherent. I just wrote whatever I felt that time and of course it doesn't really look like any organized post you know. Well now my writing has improved a lot because I'm ok now and I get to read a lot of other well written blogs as well.

Dear friend,to be a writer is not a easy thing to me.I think i should study more english words and phrases to increase my written english level.Not as you,my friend, you are so good at the english.maybe after several months ,i could write some wonderful words.lol good luck

Yes I was reading through some articles I wrote for a teen girl magazine the other month, and I was shocked at the trash they actually allowed to be published! I don't do much writing anymore as I'm concentrating on my studies, but I would like to in the future, and I would like to think that I will be able to write much better things than I could two years ago!

Oh yes, I think I'm constantly evolving, but the syndrome affects me deeply *nods nods* so much so, that I dislike to go back to go back and re-read things I've finished, lest I hate them lol. I have a problem with over-simplifying, actually _

Hi Mou well i am and were never good at writing, i dont have writing skills, thats why sure i love to read Prose ( not into poetry as i cant understand that). So whatever we write here is cant be some thing i can clain as "writer" So i am just a jean exporter not a writer Take care

I think so, although I am my own worst enemy! I can say that I am typing faster and with less errors,although I still have to look at the keyboard. One of the reasons I joined this site is because I'm disabled 3 years now and I'm losing words (I think that's the right way to put it) I have a hard time carrying on any kind of conversation with my husbands co-workers at social gatherings and it makes me feel really stupid. So I just don't say anything and kind of hide behind him. So I do think mylot is helping me be more intellecual also because I am starting to be able to talk to more intellectual people, like you, and there are many others also. So yes I even think I will try to start what I really want to do and get into writing for money. You know short articles, short stories,opinions and maybe someday,a book.

I've been writing for almost three years now but still I can't consider myself as a good writer. I have so many thoughts running through my mind but I can't fully express my thoughts and ideas. I believe that i have a creative mind but the problem is, i dont have the guts and confidence.