… for the better…?
Now a lot of people have been telling me to change my style of writing? Why? I don’t even understand why I have to, so what’s with the persuasion? Is it really that “aggressive”? Is it really that “offensive”? What will people think if I change my way of writing? Or to generalize: Will this change be for the better?
Actually, I’m clueless to what the answer is. I don’t even know if I’m doing anything wrong with the way I write. More like the question is if I care if I’m doing it wrong, but that’s an understatement anyway, not a question. When the idea came into me, I asked myself: Change? For what? Why? Whom? When? Where? And when I tried to enumerate the answers on those, none came out useful or convincing enough. So if I were to change, will everything go according to that change?
That’s one indefinite question there. A single change does bring out other changes, if instances are applied. But one thing’s for sure: If I change, something will be gained, something will be lost. If I change the way I write into something more “amiable” and “mild” for the audience, it’s like shunning my true self out of the spotlight I myself have made. I don’t want that. It’s useless for that, and with that stated out, I decided to rule out the change.
We should remember that there may be changes, but change alone is not tied to only one thing. There may be good changes, there may be bad changes. There are lots of changes, and I know I’m not only tied to the change of my writing style. I can change something else, like elaboration, or emphasis, etc. It may change some of the semantics, but it’s still retains a style. That’s what my type of change should be.
Right now, I’m not changing anything, and that’s final. But I’m also glad that this was brought up, especially by Mike. It’s strange that you who differs way too much in my way of writing would boldly state how you feel on the style. An amount of self-reflection was done, and something meaningful was achieved, so this post ain’t half-bad after all.
Then again, it’s still the usual thingamajig, so what gives…
IT’S A TARP!
Why change when it´s so you?
Keep yourself and never listen to the crowd who says otherwise.
Your TARP is amiable, Reactive, but not effective. You don’t even know the true meaning of the word yet! LURK MOAR?
It’s really what you want. If you want to hate, just hate.
If you wish to write in a way that can persuade people, then change accordingly.
I write for love… and green haired lolis.
You and your Ranka bullshit. I wonder if Reactive was actually pertaining to your arrival…
And yes, HAET and RAEG are factors to which I can write, but they’re not solely there for my disposal. I can use them, but I can also not use them. It’s my call, and my call alone.
More often then not change is a good thing although you might wnt to question your motives. =)
Motives? I don’t really have one. I talk about things, that’s it. Isn’t that what this place is for?
Well.. the lack of topics sometimes surface, though, I can’t avoid that. Hee hee hee.
oh, consider the message I left a spam, wasn’t really refering to your post
Well, you post went right on the mark when Impz came in anyway. Good job, maybe you have E.S.P.
As I said before, you’re very free to do what you want. This is your blog, after all. I’m not even saying you should change anything (if you misread, by the way). If it’s how you like to write, it’s how you’d probably write, and it’s what you’ve been doing. As long as you’re happy with that, then you are. I don’t like confrontational writing, because they often pander to emotions and not to the intellect. But that’s me, and not you.
As Evelyn Beatrice Hall says, ‘I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ You have every right to whine and bluster. I’m just saying, some people don’t like that. That was the gist of my previous comment and still remains to be the gist of this one.
Not really my type of tea, Mike. It’s not like most of us care about how a lot of people see us. People easily judge other people anyway.
Then again, there are others who don’t, and that’s a different story overall. That’s why I was weighing my choices.
But then it turned out that nothing was really relevant if I change, so I kept my usual pace. It’s not like the people would stop coming, right?