People; no matter how perfect they seem to be, like Olympic gold medalist Shaun White is to snowboarders, can have mistakes even in what they do best. Writing is what I do best and I’ve always been good at it against my will. However, I do have my strength and weaknesses in writing. My writing strengths, so far, has been my grammar, spelling, and organization. Nevertheless, I could use strong verbs to bring my writings to life and good paragraph transitions to improve my writing. Widening my arsenal of vocabularies will also be part of my strategy to improve my writing and to better bring out my ideas into writing.
Speaking of ideas, mulling over ideas on what to write about the subject is a breeze for me. Even before I begin writing, they start flooding through my mind like an angry waterfall. To make the reader understand my ideas I need to spell them right, and spelling is one of my basic instinct second only to my other basic instinct to spot a hot chick a mile away. Anyway, spelling comes natural to me as an actor is with acting and every time I write something, even if it’s just a note to a friend, I always check my spelling. I’m also an actor when it comes to writing. I love pretending to be somebody else and I love it. Acting through writing is way better than the real thing if you’re like me who can never cope with stage fright. Acting, however is not just one of my talents, I’m also a good follower. If there is an outline, I can follow it right away like a bloodhound and improve on it.
Improvement, however, is what I should apply in my writing as a whole and not just on outlines. Part of my writing which I would love to improve is showing my ideas that are still on my mind through writing. The floods of ideas inside my head are just too much for my puny hand to handle. My spelling instinct even fails me when my hand tries to keep up with my brain. My head is too occupied with my ideas that I rely too much on pre-made outlines to put them together obliterating other creative ways I could have weaved them together like a fine silk that would’ve caught the most particular tailor of all. Color, an important part of any silk for it to attract attention and sell itself, is also what my writing needs. I need color and more action to my voice to make it more convincing and, if I was making a movie, to be Oscar-winning.
I’ve heard amazing things about how Oscar-winning movies are made and how actors resort to ways just to be like their character in those movies. Those movies use the movie-making process effectively to have a good movie to please the critic’s eye. Using the writing process is the same as movie-making, in my opinion, and one of my strategies to improve my writing should be to use it effectively to polish my ideas and please my critic’s eye. To polish my ideas, I need to start with organizing my thinking to utilize the floods of ideas to use in my writing, like how a river supports entire civilizations, otherwise, the river could easily flood and wipe it all out of history. I could further improve it by using strong verbs to make a more convincing voice and to draw the audience in like a good movie.
Writing is like a movie for me, it brings a message, represents a voice, it can be told in many perspectives, and it must keep the audience on the edge of their seats. I want the audience who reads my writing to feel like they are watching a movie, or inside another person’s mind. To do that, I need to improve on my writing strengths and weaknesses not just by organizing my ideas, using stronger verbs, and being creative in my paragraphs and organization, but in all its aspects including emotional and physical aspects.