I'm putting this out in the universe:
Recreational writing is completely different from writing a research paper.
Did you know that?
I worked my recreational craft when I was in middle school, creating monstrous things that actually had endings, but now that I'm older and I'm in school I feel like my craft is beginning to disappear?
There is a certain tone and composition to writing a Research paper. But it's completely different when you're not having to cite in APA format in a creative work. 659Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPMwUAEp0f
When I was in my undergrad year of college, I majored in Exercise Science with a minor in Psychology. I had a professor who was very capable and very smart tell our class:
"You cannot train your body to be good at everything, otherwise it will only be adequate. You need to focus on training your body in one modality, and learn to be mediocre in everything else."
-Very Smart, but most difficult Professor I had in undergrad
It's totally irrelevant, right? But it's really not. I'm starting to learn this. Ask me to right a Research Paper, and brother, I can lay it down flat in an hour. But ask me to write the story that I've planned, wrote, re-planned, and wrote again, and it has taken me 4 years to get 7 chapters in, and I haven't even hit the major plot points yet.
I love to write, and I want to tell the story that I've held so deep in my heart. It's just unfortunate that I feel inadequate every time I post a chapter. Writing a Research paper is so much easier than writing a story. You have so many things to think about, so many people to develop, it's a really overlooked community of people and thinkers that can develop this way.
But I'm okay with being inadequate with my writing. I write because I love it, I write because I've had so much pent up love for the characters that I made over the years that I want their story to be told. I don't need people to read it, I just want them to have a presence and a story for myself.
And maybe when I'm done with Graduate school, I can come back and write it again, and develop my craft in the future, when I have the time and the ability to focus on that modality of writing.659Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhZ2BeyOn4
Cheers, to putting it out in the universe!659Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDxPpWDTAx
