The First Post

Hello to my friends, fellow students, and secret admirers alike. This is the first in what I hope will become a series of posts that will catalog my various writing projects, and university exercises. First I would like to share with all my latest reflective piece written for uni. The questions were: do I regard myself as a good writer, and am I regarded as a good writer by my readers?

Do I regard myself as a good writer? My experience with writing has for the most part been a positive one. My writing skills are the combination of my technical and creative abilities, and in these respects I grade myself very well as a writer, although I do not preclude the possibility of improvement. To the contrary, I have often felt that my technical skills represent a chaotic mixture of absorbed grammar, and style, which has been taken from many sources throughout my life. My lack of formal grammar training during earlier schooling has made university life somewhat difficult. What I have lacked in pure technical skill, I have often made up for in content. The comments I have often been most proud of receiving are those made in criticism of my writing, and so we come to the question of how I think my readers view my writing. The critiques of my scholarly essays have been a process of slow, but positive evolution, with my earlier work being quite unimpressive, and my more recent work enjoying such criticism as, “highly entertaining, and engaging, but also somewhat disorganized and prone to tangential thinking”. In terms of my fictional writing there have rarely been any complaints among my small following. Some have claimed to get to know me better upon reading my various works, and this gives me a feeling that I convey my emotions well in my creative writing. From this I can surmise that my writing is probably better suited toward creative fiction, and creative non-fiction, rather than the highly structured formats of scientific writing. Furthermore, I believe that the primary field I need to improve is in my structural, and mechanical writing skills, as they will assist me in focusing my thoughts, and restricting my overactive imagination, which is largely responsible for my tangent-riddled style.


Well, that's it for my first post. While I hope to offer some more fun, and personal entries, for the most part I will be using this blog to upload my many university activities for peer appraisal, and to keep my friends informed of my progress. I will write again soon, and in the meantime, remember to be good, and if you can't be good be careful, and if you can't be careful, buy a pram. Welcome to my blog.


Tim