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Trickle, meander, cascade in hope of finding ever-lasting cadence




Free-style writing as opposed to organized writing. The latter is all about deciding on what to write about, setting your teeth, and sticking to structure with a pretension of or, even better, compliance to logic. Free-style writing can be aimless and as full of gyrations as one likes. Limitations of any sort are not acknowledged, and the writer is free to break into verse, use phrases that muddle up Microsoft Word (which begs you to consider revising), and license is freely gained to gallop away with your thoughts.
But if, IF you wish for others to understand at least what you’re hammering at, a semblance of grammar and syntax may be followed, so that the liberties taken are appreciated as a creative mind’s departures from convention, instead of stark raving lunacy.
Do you have freedom of speech? So you do!
Can you use profanity? Sure do. Do it until you feel like you’ve done yourself subterfuge and feel like getting back to good old writing.
Should you follow a particular style? Not yet. The motive of free-style writing is to help you develop a style in time, but don’t try to draw lines yet, as it defeats the purpose of freewheeling thinking.
What do you expect to see? Will you see patterns within yourself that were hitherto unknown to you, or will you find that you know yourself pretty well? You will find out surprising things about yourself, perhaps.
Writing can be a great way of self-discovery.
I have notes and epistles and verse here and there, sticking out of books or among my yearbooks or in my many folders. Being a content developer myself, I am quick to see if something is well put, and some emotions and ideas akin to my own leap out at me in the most unlikely places.
Like all self-congratulatory people, I am in awe of myself and my capacity of expression. I seethe in helpless rage when I find I’ve not expressed myself keenly or profoundly enough. Fine-tune as I might, the words that I paint with my pen are not as fragrant and vivid as the pictures that spring into life in my mind’s eye.
This is practice for self-expression -- a poor stab at the many, many things I feel, and clamor to acknowledge. They are changeful, iridescent, half-baked ideas, some waiting to be developed, some stewing under wraps waiting for acrostic bloom, and some given more than their due.
I find it hard to forgive this peccancy, and can hardly wait until I can do better. Ought not this eagerness to count for something?

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