Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 79

My professor constantly criticizes my work. She calls it heavy. She thinks my vocabulary is too difficult, "hard to understand" as she likes to call it. But thats my style. I like when you have to read between the lines. I like when I give the reader more

This is actually a very complex issue because you have to balance being true to your own writing and actually taking on advice. Writing simplistically isn’t average or mediocre, sometimes it is actually, a lot more effective than filling a piece with unnecessary and long words. Sometimes a reader doesn’t want to have to jump through hoops to understand something. Sometimes they want to just read something as it is. That being said, you also have to balance your own style. Maybe try something new? You might find you like it. 

My professor constantly criticizes my work. She calls it heavy. She thinks my vocabulary is too difficult, "hard to understand" as she likes to call it. But thats my style. I like when you have to read between the lines. I like when I give the reader more

This is actually a very complex issue because you have to balance being true to your own writing and actually taking on advice. Writing simplistically isn’t average or mediocre, sometimes it is actually, a lot more effective than filling a piece with unnecessary and long words. Sometimes a reader doesn’t want to have to jump through hoops to understand something. Sometimes they want to just read something as it is. That being said, you also have to balance your own style. Maybe try something new? You might find you like it. 

My professor constantly criticizes my work. She calls it heavy. She thinks my vocabulary is too difficult, "hard to understand" as she likes to call it. But thats my style. I like when you have to read between the lines. I like when I give the reader more

This is actually a very complex issue because you have to balance being true to your own writing and actually taking on advice. Writing simplistically isn’t average or mediocre, sometimes it is actually, a lot more effective than filling a piece with unnecessary and long words. Sometimes a reader doesn’t want to have to jump through hoops to understand something. Sometimes they want to just read something as it is. That being said, you also have to balance your own style. Maybe try something new? You might find you like it. 

My professor constantly criticizes my work. She calls it heavy. She thinks my vocabulary is too difficult, "hard to understand" as she likes to call it. But thats my style. I like when you have to read between the lines. I like when I give the reader more

This is actually a very complex issue because you have to balance being true to your own writing and actually taking on advice. Writing simplistically isn’t average or mediocre, sometimes it is actually, a lot more effective than filling a piece with unnecessary and long words. Sometimes a reader doesn’t want to have to jump through hoops to understand something. Sometimes they want to just read something as it is. That being said, you also have to balance your own style. Maybe try something new? You might find you like it. 

Hi Azra! I'm considering coming to Edinburgh for uni! I would be an international student, and I'm curious to know what your favourite thing about Edinburgh is:)

It’s beautiful here! The poetry scene is thriving and it’s genuinely one of the most lovely cities I’ve ever been in. Also I’m really enjoying my course, so that helps :)

Your writing is beautiful. You sound extremely mature and like you have an amazing perspective of the entire spectrum of human emotion. I've also been trying to write but somehow I don't sound as good. Just out of curiosity how old are you and what have yo

Thank you so much! I’m 21 and I studied English literature at Southampton and now I’m in Edinburgh doing a masters :)

Your writing is beautiful. You sound extremely mature and like you have an amazing perspective of the entire spectrum of human emotion. I've also been trying to write but somehow I don't sound as good. Just out of curiosity how old are you and what have yo

Thank you so much! I’m 21 and I studied English literature at Southampton and now I’m in Edinburgh doing a masters :)

Your writing is beautiful. You sound extremely mature and like you have an amazing perspective of the entire spectrum of human emotion. I've also been trying to write but somehow I don't sound as good. Just out of curiosity how old are you and what have yo

Thank you so much! I’m 21 and I studied English literature at Southampton and now I’m in Edinburgh doing a masters :)

In this story there is a bird living inside of my ribcage. It has eaten my heart and occasionally...

In this story there is a bird living inside of my ribcage. It has eaten my heart and occasionally throws up the chunks. I can feel the old remnants of it beating against my bones, like an old far away song. She flaps her wings and tries to fly upwards from my throat so I swallow her down and tighten my spinal cord to keep her there. She sings her desperate lullaby against my throat and at night I hear the faint loneliness of it. When I open my mouth, I speak in music. When I close my mouth, she throws herself against my ribs pulsing out her own keening rhythm. 

"I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else… and I will love..."

“I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else… and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more… and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned.”

- Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
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