Why I blog

All it takes is two hundred words. My creative writing class exclaimed 500 to write a story of a moment. My experience tells me carefully hand picked adjectives and adverbs to say everything that contains everything you want to say or at least implies it (Ernest Hemingway’s tip of the iceberg).

I haven’t been blogging lately and amidst illustrating, photoshopping and studying, which I have to admit takes a lot of my time, I just can’t write.

I want to write because I envy Time magazine writers. Their articles talk like swashbuckling classic fiction. And their insights are always fresh and hip with a dash of humor sometimes, political articles aside.

My favorite writer is Joel Stein. He wrote an insightful formula that suggested a ranking for TIME 100. Never mind that his math skills are no less than what a common tambay needs to survive in everyday life.

It had a point.

And that point was delivered in stylish fashion.

I can’t tell you fully how frustrated I am that I can’t adequately express my ideas. Every time I want to, my mind streaks ahead…

…to no more than a standstill. It has worked against me a lot of times.

Maybe it does take more than sudden fiction style writing to communicate effectively.   But not mathematically.

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