Some writing about writing
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The Grace special: lightly seasoned circular reasoning topped with only opinions
Someone once asked me what kind of genre my writing was. I was stuck giving incorrect answers for a whole five minutes.
Uh yeah so uh it’s like a personal essay but not like a formal essay, and it’s kinda like a memoir, but I’m not recounting on anything super super deep, and it’s not an auto-biography or anything like that, and it’s on a blog, and I call it that, but it’s not about lifestyle, and uh it’s like an opinion-editorial but without the editorial, so it’s kinda like an opinion, but I bring in literary elements and reflect on life so it’s more developed? Uh yeah I hope that helped.
– Me, 2023
So basically I write circular reasoning. Throwback to AP language! Circular reasoning is a logical fallacy where the reason for A is B, and the reason for B is A. It’s not that I’m necessarily trying to convince you of something, but I’ve noticed that I usually just throw out an opinion, share a personal story that made me come to that conclusion, and then restate the opinion but with more fervor! Anyway, I’m not going to stop because this way I’m always right and always wrong at the same time (and I do what I want on my blog)!
Also, in response to when I drop a new blog post, I have a lot of people telling me that it was relatable and gave them something to think about. In response to that I have a couple of things to say:
I’m very very very glad! Please keep responding because it makes me feel good and lets me know I’m not a complete failure, so I’m very glad! (see the next section for reference) Did I tell you I’m very glad you slid up?
Please stay safe and don’t use my circular reasoning to make any major life decisions or as basis for anything. I’m just a 19 year old who writes a more-developed version of shower thoughts on her notes app.
The next one hit wonder: me
When I first saw that the views on my second writing post went down about sixty people less than the first post, I immediately felt like something was wrong with me. True, my first post may not have appealed to everyone, so it wasn’t as enticing to click on the second post, and also Instagram isn’t the best at showing what I post on my story to everyone, especially when there’s an influx of users on Instagram. I choose to believe primarily in the latter reasoning.
When re-evaluating why this even mattered to me, I thought about the reason why I even post what I write in the first place. It’s not to gain popularity as a writer or somehow be discovered.
Genuinely, I hope that any part of what I write, no matter if it’s a single word or all of the words, will either inspire, motivate, or challenge someone. I suppose the reason why the number of readers I get matters still, then, is because the baseline is that my writing, if not all writing in general, would be nothing without those there to read it. Thanks for being here.
Speaking of Instagram, if you feel so inclined to, if you scroll down a little, then scroll back up, at the very bottom right corner, there’s a grey button that says “follow”. If you put your email there, you can get notified not through Instagram but through email when I post! That would make me very glad as well!
I wish I had secrets left to keep
I wish I had secrets left to keep. To clarify, not the juicy “hot goss” about who’s dating who and who did what and who went where. Frankly, I don’t care enough.
I refer to secrets as any and every little thought I’ve ever had. My closest friends get the absolute pleasure of listening to me critique city layouts, rank trees based on their foliage and branch pattern, and investigate the lore of inanimate objects. I feel the need to clarify that these secrets are not the secrets of others, but rather my secrets that fall in the crevices in my brain.
Sharing your secrets is how you gain friends. It fosters trust and opens vulnerability. I guess by sharing all of my thoughts in the form of conversation or writing, I feel like I’m having an endless conversation with a friend. I hope you feel the same way as you read this.
“The best writers are also readers” – My mom, who is trying to get me to read more
Yes, mom! That’s great! I also agree! I would love to read more. The issue is I have the attention span of a peanut and my literacy skills stopped developing after the last mandatory STAAR test.
Don’t worry guys, I’m trying to read more for the secret boost it will give to my writing. In all seriousness though, she’s probably right. I was inspired to write part of this after reading my good friend Nysa’s Substack. Nysa is an extremely talented writer. Why? Although not in proper data science form, as I didn’t isolate the variables, it’s probably because she possesses the attention-span to read.
Also, I’m trying to read more because of this one very important fact:
I call dibs on the next good idea
My first thought when I finish reading a really good piece of writing is
Wow. That was really good. (Naturally)
My second thought when I finish reading a really good piece of writing is
Why didn’t I think of that? (Somehow also naturally?)
I love reading others’ writing because it feels like they’ve taken the words straight out of my mouth. Not even the words, but also the thoughts. Some people are just able to articulate externally what I can’t even process internally. Sometimes what’s said resonates so deeply with me that I feel like I should have been the one to write it.
As much as good writing makes me loathe the writer, it also inspires me to share my own thoughts, hoping it will resonate with someone else and repeat the cycle.
So here’s one of my own:
Has every good thought already been thought?
I recently saw on the news that Ed Sheeran is getting sued for possibly copying a Marvin Gaye song. Like Ed Sheeran, I’m bound to accidentally say/write something that’s already been said in this oversaturated word market. Good thing that all intelligent thoughts have already been thought and what is necessary is only to try to think them again! (That was totally a 100% original thought by me and not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Do not search that thought up at all! It had not been thought of yet before me!)
I want to end this post with words that are not my own for a couple of reasons:
It makes a full circle ending, and I love circular things (especially circular reasoning)
It says it all. It’s simple and short, yet it’s still something that made me go, “Wow. That was really good” and “Why didn’t I think of that?” It’s from an artist named Kendall Ross who knits her thoughts into sweaters. Here it is:
“Are you tired of me yet?”
– Kendall Ross
