Simple does it. I don't know why for such a long time I was trying to write, you know what I mean? TO WRITE. So it looked fucking WRITTEN. When all I had to do is simply say what I saw in my head on paper. It's so easy to get carried away in this notion of writing. Stories are something that has to be written. With these complicated words, in elaborate sophisticated sentences that do a switchback on each other and dazzle readers' minds. Bullshit. How I wish someone could have explained this to me 2 years ago, when I started writing. If you're a beginning writer like me, I hope this post will save you a lot of headache and a ton of anguish. I hope I can help you jump through the hoops that I myself didn't see and had to grope for, blindly, in the dark, sick with fear, stomach twisted up in anxiety. Sweat on my forehead. The stinky unhealthy kind. The hollow sign of horror.
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