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[desh]

I've been reading some of my old LJ posts, and it's striking to me how much of a better writer I was back when I was in college, writing regularly for classes in addition to stuff on the web.

If anyone's curious, here are some good posts about 5th grade, my car, and a strange Christmas encounter. The latter is one of the best things I've ever written, if not the best. There was also a fun picture post, too.

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[krisispm.livejournal.com]

I think that (if I can attribute it to a single thing), the feeling you just express is the reason I've been motivated to write more actively for CK.

The non-self-centered point of that is that I don't think college has so much to do with it so much as writing begets betters writing, and eventually some of it turns out good. (Back to being self-centered,) As I've been tagging old posts for last ::mumbles:: ten months ::mumbles:: I've read so many striking, memorable turns of phrase, and some of them were tossed off in the most casual of posts.

Casual, but part of a string; posts with frequency.

Moral: write more!

[desh]

Yeah, it does come down to just writing more. Imagine if I hadn't been a math major, and had therefore written more than about 10 or 20 pages per semester, total, for school.