The only way to get better at something is keep on doing it until you get better. It should work for just about anything -- shooting a basketball, teaching lab and writing. It's supposed to be that easy -- for normal people. For me, it's rocket science.
I am a terrible writer. Writing has never been easy for me. Remember in elementary school when you first learn how to write paragraphs and then graduate to writing five paragraph essays? The really formulaic and super boring type ones. I think mentality towards writing hasn't matured since I learned that draconian formula: Topic Sentence + 3 Supporting Detail Sentences + Concluding Sentence = Best Paragraph Ever. Writing is hard for me because I am the type of person who follows a formula like it's the only way to do something. It's hard for me to find the small intricacies to writing such that I can tweak it and make it my own.
I don't think jealous is the right term to describe how I feel when I read some of my friends' writing. Maybe a better term would be yearning or covetous. I'm not sure, both terms don't fully describe how I feel.
The purpose of this blog was to document my travel adventures when I was in Hong Kong. Clearly, I didn't follow through with that objective. It now serves a much more noble purpose -- improve my writing.
