What a beautiful metaphor (or is it analogy…I can’t recall): “I employ analogies and similes as the branches from which my meanings can hang, blinking in the unaccustomed daylight and stretching out their stiff limbs.”

I hope to one day really be able to improve my writing. I actually meet with Kelly Diels next week for a blog review and hope to get some help in clarifying my voice and my goals for the blog.

I’m glad you are a visitor! And my long-distance friend…

Thing is with me, is that the language I use to tell myself things is very, very dense and compact. After all, I know what I am saying so from a purely personal point of view there is little need of an edit.

But we do not exist alone – and all forms of communication will touch and affect other forms of communication. So it is that I find myself sharing what has been shared with me. The edit, and it is a necessary one, consists of unpacking the zip files of my compacted musings and allowing paragraphs to be unpacked from sentences. I employ analogies and similies as the branches from which my meanings can hang, blinking in the unaccustomed daylight and stretching out their stiff limbs.

I have become far more clued up on where to begin the great unpacking and how to add much more simplicity and, I hope, clarity to my writing. For this I owe a great deal to Josie whose unenviable task it was to shift me out of old habits and realise that people might actually want to understand what I was blithering on about.

So yes, I edit, but the content stays the same. However the structure gained by my edits allows much more scope for understanding. At least that is what I am told, and for now, that’s pretty dinky : ) LF