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My Style of Writing

My Style of Writing

It’s getting harder and harder to write how I want to write. Everyone wants me to write like everyone else. Even sometimes that’s not good enough. It’s okay for them to write a certain way. But if I do it, it’s wrong. Some of the prompts I get from these contests are a good example.

When I get a new prompt, I Copy and Paste it into a used Word Document. I say used because I keep the page width, the length, the styles, etc. The only thing that changes is what I’m about to write and I do that by deleting the old Word Document content for the new one.

After I Paste the new prompt into the new Word Document, I often get spelling errors, tense errors, misspelled words, errors in sentence structures, etc. If I do something like this, it’s wrong. Why is it wrong for me to do it? But it’s not that way for everyone else.

So far, with this blog entry, I have had a couple of big-time Sentence Structure errors. Both errors were not easy to figure out. But I did figure them out. I have also had several words that weren’t needed for errors. Those are easy to fix, though. All I need to do is erase them.

I see those kinds of words and Sentence Structures in prompts all the time. Why can they do it but I can’t? It’s the same for my Reviewing and being Reviewed. I see these errors all the time when I’m Reviewing. But when I write about them, I’m wrong. It’s the same for being Reviewed.

If I’m too wordy, my tenses are incorrect, I have a Sentence Structure that isn’t like everyone else, etc., it’s an error in my Review. But if I did it to the same writer in a Review, it’s okay for them to do it. Why is that? I give them the same error. But they don’t like it.

Of course, I want to be like everyone else. But I also want to be myself. I don’t like to start the same paragraph or sentence with the same word, especially the next paragraph or sentence. But that’s what everyone else is doing. So, it looks like that’s what I will be needing to do now too.

I don’t want to be exactly like everyone else. But it’s getting harder for me to be myself. Yes, I know I just wrote the opposite in the last paragraph. It’s still the same sentence. But it’s handled slightly differently. I’m doing this to try to prove a point.

It doesn’t look like I have proven my point after all. I didn’t get an error for Sentence Structure, wordiness, etc. Maybe I’m wrong about some of this ranting and raving. But I don’t think so. What I have been writing is true. It’s just not affecting me with this blog entry right now.

Why am I writing a blog entry about My Style of Writing? It’s because I was right about today. My brother and I have been busy all day today. As a result, I haven’t had time to work on my WDC Short Story for this month. I barely had time to write this blog entry today.