Fast-track to Better Writing

Where are the deep dark secrets of good writing? Where have my "English teachers" been? Ninety  percent of the time, the word teacher (especially English "teachers") is not deserved. A lot of them are destroyers of ambitions and what they destroy can take several decade to undo. Those teachers who have been "key-mentors" and "models" in your life, I remember them well. The rest are not even worth any recall effort.

I am not a good writer by all means. I've been told of that fact and my  (English) grades reflected their thoughts which became encrusted in my mind. I had a lot to say by no means to express myself because I did not even try. Then one day, I knew I was saying something intelligent to an ignoramus who was good in English and nothing else. The "&%$#@" picked on my english and I bit the bait lock, stock, and barrell. Time heals, but time also let me reflect on my mistake. My mistake was to fall for the misdirection. Yes, just like in magic, a magician will use misdirection to make you focus on something else while he clandestinely does what is not-magic "under the covers."  That's it! I had been fooled into thinking I was more stupid than he was because I made -- you know "those mistakes."  Little did he know that he did me a great favor because when this realization came to light, I started not caring and doing more (writing.) I litterally plunged into the murky water of the contortionist language, English.  I still make lots of grammatical errors, but who cares, I will learn with time that will never stop me, nor should it stop you. Period!

What triggered all this mini-essay (standing on my soap box, of course)?  I was simply going to chuck all my thinking into my "mental diary" for no one else to see, until I stumbled on the http://www.powa.org/whtfrms.htm -- then ... I suddenly realized that I was doing is what lead to better writing. I hope that this site may entice other to start in the creative writing streak. It is not the wish to write, but the wish to communicate in a more permanent way to let others share your knowledge, thoughts, feelings, philosophies, and so on.

http://www.powa.org/whtfrms.htm

Ron Herff