I changed the quote in the blog's headline to E.M. Forster's quote on free writing. Or, at least I suppose that was what he was talking about, because I've only met it out of context.
It's such a smart little quote, I didn't like it at first - I'm still a bit doubtful. I used to be very impulsive with the things I said; I never gave it a second thought when I blurted out with something. Most probably because of that, I've always wanted to be one of those people who could really sit and think about their words before they said a thing. I once read that there are two kinds of people: the ones who think before they speak, and the ones two think while they speak (not necessarily afterwards). Obviously I'm in the last group. I find that I'm much better at expressing my thoughts when I'm allowed to play around with the words and arrange them differently until I end up with my 'final answer'. But I've always envied those who didn't need to talk for ages before they had an answer, those who could think about it quietly before they took a stand. On the other hand, I'm rarely afraid to dive into a discussion though I haven't made up my mind yet; it makes for a lot of interesting discussions because I don't have something to defend, and so I often switch side as the arguments go along. Ha, some people never realize that I'm just trying to find the better argument, I'm not being Ms. Opposite by default nor am I always as confused as I seem (although most of the time, I am...).
I guess everything has its pros and cons. The reason I disliked the quote was because it could encourage you to speak before you think, and that's not necessarily what we need are in need of. We're so many people doing that already. But I'll allow myself to speak before I think, for once. I think better when I write; in my mind, things easily flatten as I try to look at the complexities. I need the human responses to so many thoughts, thus, my friends are infinitely important in this area. Especially the ones who tend to disagree with me, though it's so easy to forget the importance of disagreement.
On a side note, I switched language. I'm sorry, I really meant for this to be a blog in Danish, but, you know. English has another sort of flow, and it soothes me greatly for this kind of free writing. Sometimes I think that I'm much worse in Danish because my mother tongue has infiltrated me so completely that I'm unable to differentiate the words. It's like there are too many options for each sentence, I find it hard to choose. In French, though, I have a lot of things I'd like to say and a very little vocabulary to do so. But English needs a certain focus yet contains so many more possibilities, not just grammatical ones.
Though English is one of my best subjects in school, I'm not a perfect speller (to prove this right, I just checked Wiktionary for this word and realized it wasn't 'spellar'...), nor a great grammar person. And I miss all of my Danish idioms, like "being a shark at something" and so on. One thing I'd reeeally like to incorporate more often is idioms. (But I am a huge language nerd though and I just gasped when realizing the beauty of 'incorporate's etymology. Corporate, corporatism, corpus, Latin word for 'body'. Nevermind!)
I've also just begun The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and it's so great but it definitely impacts my style of writing, haha. But it has been a great inspiration to start writing at least something like this blog entry again. I really really like this book though it is very heart-wrenching and maybe even a little overdone at times, but it might just be because I've read so many old classics lately, Sense and Sensibility, Crime and Punishment (alright not that old), The Divine Comedy and of course the winner, The Aeneid. It's probably just because the topics of those books are very different from Perks'. Well, it's been a while since a book has made me read constantly out of sheer interest in the plot, and not because I wanted to finish it. (I just finished 1Q84 and I was very tired of it in the end; for me, it definitely didn't come close to other works of Murakami).
Anyways, I didn't really want to discuss the book now. I'll do that some other time maybe. It's been a pleasure to write again though, so make it a possibly maybe.
Talk to you soon, I hope; bye for now.
It's such a smart little quote, I didn't like it at first - I'm still a bit doubtful. I used to be very impulsive with the things I said; I never gave it a second thought when I blurted out with something. Most probably because of that, I've always wanted to be one of those people who could really sit and think about their words before they said a thing. I once read that there are two kinds of people: the ones who think before they speak, and the ones two think while they speak (not necessarily afterwards). Obviously I'm in the last group. I find that I'm much better at expressing my thoughts when I'm allowed to play around with the words and arrange them differently until I end up with my 'final answer'. But I've always envied those who didn't need to talk for ages before they had an answer, those who could think about it quietly before they took a stand. On the other hand, I'm rarely afraid to dive into a discussion though I haven't made up my mind yet; it makes for a lot of interesting discussions because I don't have something to defend, and so I often switch side as the arguments go along. Ha, some people never realize that I'm just trying to find the better argument, I'm not being Ms. Opposite by default nor am I always as confused as I seem (although most of the time, I am...).
I guess everything has its pros and cons. The reason I disliked the quote was because it could encourage you to speak before you think, and that's not necessarily what we need are in need of. We're so many people doing that already. But I'll allow myself to speak before I think, for once. I think better when I write; in my mind, things easily flatten as I try to look at the complexities. I need the human responses to so many thoughts, thus, my friends are infinitely important in this area. Especially the ones who tend to disagree with me, though it's so easy to forget the importance of disagreement.
On a side note, I switched language. I'm sorry, I really meant for this to be a blog in Danish, but, you know. English has another sort of flow, and it soothes me greatly for this kind of free writing. Sometimes I think that I'm much worse in Danish because my mother tongue has infiltrated me so completely that I'm unable to differentiate the words. It's like there are too many options for each sentence, I find it hard to choose. In French, though, I have a lot of things I'd like to say and a very little vocabulary to do so. But English needs a certain focus yet contains so many more possibilities, not just grammatical ones.
Though English is one of my best subjects in school, I'm not a perfect speller (to prove this right, I just checked Wiktionary for this word and realized it wasn't 'spellar'...), nor a great grammar person. And I miss all of my Danish idioms, like "being a shark at something" and so on. One thing I'd reeeally like to incorporate more often is idioms. (But I am a huge language nerd though and I just gasped when realizing the beauty of 'incorporate's etymology. Corporate, corporatism, corpus, Latin word for 'body'. Nevermind!)
I've also just begun The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and it's so great but it definitely impacts my style of writing, haha. But it has been a great inspiration to start writing at least something like this blog entry again. I really really like this book though it is very heart-wrenching and maybe even a little overdone at times, but it might just be because I've read so many old classics lately, Sense and Sensibility, Crime and Punishment (alright not that old), The Divine Comedy and of course the winner, The Aeneid. It's probably just because the topics of those books are very different from Perks'. Well, it's been a while since a book has made me read constantly out of sheer interest in the plot, and not because I wanted to finish it. (I just finished 1Q84 and I was very tired of it in the end; for me, it definitely didn't come close to other works of Murakami).
Anyways, I didn't really want to discuss the book now. I'll do that some other time maybe. It's been a pleasure to write again though, so make it a possibly maybe.
Talk to you soon, I hope; bye for now.
