Daily Archive for July 29th, 2008

Writing And “Writing”

I don’t even know why I’m writing this! Or am I even writing this?!

I’ve been told by many people on how I write. I write differently when it comes to my novels and short stories if they compare it to my blog entries. My way of talking to most people are, so they say, “spiked”, “spunky” or “aggressive”, but that doesn’t surface much when I write or talk seriously. And most people tend to confuse the two into my active and passive behaviors, mainly because I’m unstable and confusing myself. Confusing, no?

And that brings the question: How does one write? How does one “write”? What’s the difference between the two? What’s with the stupid quotation marks? Or more importantly, why do they even exist as diversified extensions of the word?

Look, I’m not trying to get smart here, nor am I one-upping you, or bitching at you, or something. I just want to state out and answer the questions, or the so-called “assumptions” by some people who comment on how I write, as well as the entirety of the ideas behind my way of writing. I hope I made that clear before I continue. No Grammar Nazis, no proofreading shit. We’re talking about my “way” of writing, and nothing else.

Now, welcome to my world, bitches… Wait, wrong iconic psychopath…

Just what is writing and “writing”? If you have such a clever wit on the play of words, you’d get my point: One is real, uniform and formal, one is not. If you look at it like you’re skimming a book, you can’t tell the difference. After all, what you write can be read, or spoken regardless of the two mentioned above. These are all pretty much similar in a way that you express yourself through words and such. But think: How does “writing” become uniform and formal? How does writing negate that by being the opposite of the definition?

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