dotting my i
i never capitalize in my personal writing.
i've had some complain about that manner of writing, and perhaps it may be nuisance that people could get over with, it is however, deeply personal to me.
this blog is me. these are the most intimate and least filtered thoughts i have. someday i'll die, but my writing here will live on. more than just the subject matters of my blog, this personalization extends even to my manner of writing:
there is a rhythm to my prose and that's just my desire to write poetry manifesting in this blog. i'm, in fact, originally a poet by practice. (see my original oeuvre in my 2006-2007 blog the mind's shit) hence my propensity for rhyming schemes, alliteration and everything in between. i've decided to put off writing poetry to allow me to write less cryptic and more explicit insights. unfortunately, i'm fallibly literal and, more often than not, i need things spelled out for me.
there is likewise a pattern to the different kinds of blog entries i have, depending on the intention of a particular piece. the beauty of this blog is it affords me the freedom to write whichever way i want to, and that weighs heavily more than being able to write about anything. i've experimented with several styles - the repetitive and growing (conversion rate), the dissect and expound (break up number 4), the tell and enumerate (what basketball taught me about my breakup), and many more. the way i package my thoughts is what i believe the value i add to the endless slew of internet whining.
more fundamentally, the common thread that ties my writing is my propensity to never capitalize. i was originally inspired by this writer i learned about back in high school (whom i can't for the life of me remember his or her name) that never capitalizes because of his or her stance against capitalism. while i'm not staunchly against any economic principles, i decided to co-opt it first as a stylistic choice. but eventually it dawned on me that the reason why i'm drawn to it is because i like the idea of treating every letter equally - no uppercase nor lower case. much like a socialist society (what. damn. i thought i wouldn't go there)
but really all of this should have been done by a literary analyst or critic. but seeing as i'll never be a preeminent literary figure, let alone one relevant enough to be read by anyone, i decided to do to my writing what i love doing to everything else - and that is to overthink.
i've had some complain about that manner of writing, and perhaps it may be nuisance that people could get over with, it is however, deeply personal to me.
this blog is me. these are the most intimate and least filtered thoughts i have. someday i'll die, but my writing here will live on. more than just the subject matters of my blog, this personalization extends even to my manner of writing:
there is a rhythm to my prose and that's just my desire to write poetry manifesting in this blog. i'm, in fact, originally a poet by practice. (see my original oeuvre in my 2006-2007 blog the mind's shit) hence my propensity for rhyming schemes, alliteration and everything in between. i've decided to put off writing poetry to allow me to write less cryptic and more explicit insights. unfortunately, i'm fallibly literal and, more often than not, i need things spelled out for me.
there is likewise a pattern to the different kinds of blog entries i have, depending on the intention of a particular piece. the beauty of this blog is it affords me the freedom to write whichever way i want to, and that weighs heavily more than being able to write about anything. i've experimented with several styles - the repetitive and growing (conversion rate), the dissect and expound (break up number 4), the tell and enumerate (what basketball taught me about my breakup), and many more. the way i package my thoughts is what i believe the value i add to the endless slew of internet whining.
more fundamentally, the common thread that ties my writing is my propensity to never capitalize. i was originally inspired by this writer i learned about back in high school (whom i can't for the life of me remember his or her name) that never capitalizes because of his or her stance against capitalism. while i'm not staunchly against any economic principles, i decided to co-opt it first as a stylistic choice. but eventually it dawned on me that the reason why i'm drawn to it is because i like the idea of treating every letter equally - no uppercase nor lower case. much like a socialist society (what. damn. i thought i wouldn't go there)
but really all of this should have been done by a literary analyst or critic. but seeing as i'll never be a preeminent literary figure, let alone one relevant enough to be read by anyone, i decided to do to my writing what i love doing to everything else - and that is to overthink.
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