Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The writer I was

Reviewing and updating web content that I'd written two years ago, I am surprised. It reads nothing like what I'd write today and I ask myself, "Did I really write this?? Gosh! What was I thinking?"And then it begins to dawn on me, how writers change, as people, how their circumstances change, their muses, their beliefs, their streams of thought - it all changes. And with that changes what we write. It reflects it perfectly. That latest preference for short sentences, the extra heed to tenses, sometimes the unfortunate lack of vocabulary.The signs are all in there. Just as the wrinkles on our faces depict age, maturity and wisdom (hopefully), our writing speaks volumes. We can either evolve as writers or stay where we always were. I'd like to take my chances and discover new quirks in myself. And in what I write...