Thought a Day & Confident Writing

Well I’ve decided it’s easier to see thoughts and decipher them than think them and catalogue… who’d a thought.

This here blog is me understanding my own thoughts on writing, nothing more nothing less. Grammer more grammar less too…

My first thoughts are on what I call confident writing. What is that to me?

Confident writing is taking out the hesitation in the wording.

What do I mean? Well I noticed it in my own works, compared to the pro’s when I’d copy out their books. Word for word, phrase for phrase, and sentence for sentence. I stole that from Hunter S. Thompson’s dairies. But what is the hesitation?

For me it was the ‘he quietly snuck…’, or ‘she weakly tried to…’, whatever the character was doing was doing it hesitantly. Not as in the actual character was hesitating or weak in their action, but the writer was. I was. In trying to convey the sense it had been cheapened by some stray words that hadn’t been clipped.

Well now they are.

It’s a simple observation, and one that’s not even that high up on the rung of being a ‘good’ writer. But I think it’s an important one worth mentioning. I think most writing ideas and rules are simple enough to understand, but hard to execute. Why? Because we all think that we’re special, that we’re the exception and not the rule.

From that observation I learned it’s not how good you write, it’s what the reader senses. So while some writer’s can get away with the weakly whispering quietly said in… yada yada. It’s best not to think you can get away with it.

My writing became more confident when I stopped depending on those wee words of annoyance.

Who’d a thought?

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