I'm finding that consistent writing, writing mostly about anything, keeping this blog for example, is an excercise in improvement. Also, reading - anything - the gamut from the Wall Street Journal online to countless other blogs across the Internet universe does a world of good.
It just occured to me that writing, reading and communicating with others who do the same is like practicing at something to get better at it. As with athletes, the more you train, you'll eventually see an improvement. But obviously it's not only in the training alone. There's also a need for tactics, for method, for some thought behind the physical output. I believe the same goes for writing. It would be useless just to write and write without thought behind it, without saying something important, useful, or interesting at least.
So. I don't mean to say my writing has improved. Not yet. But it certainly is now easier to come up with things to write or ways to write certain things. The brick walls I used to hit seem a bit softer now, they're more like dry walls - still a bit painful, but at least I can get through them.
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