{"id":2437,"date":"2009-12-11T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2009-12-11T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:13:24","slug":"on-the-weeks-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2437","title":{"rendered":"On the Week’s Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The writing I’ve done this week? I like it.<\/p>\n

That’s a rare and wonderful thing. And perhaps, to you, a surprising thing, as I am always<\/i> writing something<\/i>, if not for myself then for work. I produce words routinely without a second thought.<\/p>\n

Except for when I don’t.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t happen all that often that I like something I’ve written. The truth is, I’m a poor judge of my own writing.<\/p>\n

One of my great hang-ups, as a writer, is a lack of trust in my words. I will write something, and I won’t like it, or the words don’t feel right, and I will flail. Sometimes, I write write the same paragraph, sometimes even the same sentence, over and over and over, until I feel that I have it right and can move on.<\/p>\n

Or, in worse cases, I will change my font or play with a toolbar in Microsoft Word, because I want to change the presentation or I want to feel productive. When, in reality, presentation doesn’t matter and moving around Word’s toolbars is anything but productive.<\/p>\n

This week, I’ve felt productive. More importantly, the words I’ve put down on paper feel right<\/i>. Better, the words feel lively<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I’ve been especially happy with the writing I’ve done for work this week. I spent yesterday afternoon writing editorial copy, and in going back and rereading it, I’m amazed at how smooth it read. Yes, there were some nuts-and-bolts passages — pretty unavoidable, really, when writing about a product — but, by and large, the copy read like something worth reading.<\/p>\n

I can be immensely self-critical when it comes to my words. I’m not feeling that this week. This is, I must admit, a strange state of affairs.<\/p>\n

I like that. Hopefully this feeling will stay around for a while. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In light of that, here are my writing plans for the weekend:<\/p>\n

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  1. Write Query Letters and send<\/b>\n