I love to write.
I wrote many stories and poems and little phrases and quotes when I was younger. I have notebooks full of them and I kept many journals which I still have but haven't looked at in years. As I got older, life got busier when I started going out with the "kyds" and spending time with my friends. In time, I fell in love, got married and had kids of my own. Time went by and I no longer wrote.
Nothing.
Well, it may as well have been nothing.
I would write the occasional To-Do list or the weekly grocery list but that was about the extent of my writing. I don't think I've touched a journal since Nikayda was born but I still love to write. I think that's why I'm enjoying this blog so much. I can type a whole heck-of-a-lot faster than I can write.
I remember a few years ago, I tried to handwrite an entry in a journal and my hand got sore after only a paragraph or so! I'm just so use to typing. Crazy that the pen is becoming a thing of the past...or...{gasp}....an antique, dare I say! (lol.) While that's something that may never happen (becoming a thing of the past), in this day and age, we're all just more used to the keyboard.
But with writing, it's very difficult to portray your mood or tone of voice. That's the one thing I find to be the most challenging. Sometimes, as I'm typing an entry, I'm thinking that if I were talking, I'd be talking very fast - like ahundredmilesanhour. Other times, I'd be drawing out my sentences - ...very....methodically....and......slow, sometimes in a very sarcastic tone of voice, sometimes in a very dry tongue-in-cheek tone of voice.
It's all difficult to portray.
I also love "big" words. Like methodically, differentiate, marvelous, detrimental, juxtapose and monochromatic. I don't always know how to use them properly but I use them anyway. I don't care if I don't use them the right way. I just like to use them because they're fun. And quite frankly, I absolutely don't know how to spell most of them. I just know how to pronounce them. Well...most of the time.
Have I also mentioned that I'm a perfectionist? (See. That was sarcastic...but you may not know that if you don't know me very well.) It drives me crazy that I don't know where to put every comma in a sentence or every 'break' in a paragraph. So I just do what I think and hope for the best. English/Reading/Literature were one of my favorite subjects in school. Second only to art. Yet, there's so much that I don't remember... It's been years, after all, since I was in school. :) (12 to-be-exact. That's about how many it takes a kid to go through school!)
Regarding the perfectionist in me, I've got some of that Poyhonen blood. But I feel very fortunate to have some of that Torola and Tormanen blood to (hopefully) balance it all out! Although, I always thought it was the Heinonen genes that gave me the perfectionism and that 'attitude', but over time, I think I've learned it's more likely due to the Poyhonen genes.
In any case...this entry is about writing.
Most of the time, I may not even make sense. I don't care. This is just my way of getting my thoughts out there. It's my form of a journal because I love to write. And if you enjoy reading it and seeing the pictures. Well then. That's just an added bonus!
I wrote many stories and poems and little phrases and quotes when I was younger. I have notebooks full of them and I kept many journals which I still have but haven't looked at in years. As I got older, life got busier when I started going out with the "kyds" and spending time with my friends. In time, I fell in love, got married and had kids of my own. Time went by and I no longer wrote.
Nothing.
Well, it may as well have been nothing.
I would write the occasional To-Do list or the weekly grocery list but that was about the extent of my writing. I don't think I've touched a journal since Nikayda was born but I still love to write. I think that's why I'm enjoying this blog so much. I can type a whole heck-of-a-lot faster than I can write.
I remember a few years ago, I tried to handwrite an entry in a journal and my hand got sore after only a paragraph or so! I'm just so use to typing. Crazy that the pen is becoming a thing of the past...or...{gasp}....an antique, dare I say! (lol.) While that's something that may never happen (becoming a thing of the past), in this day and age, we're all just more used to the keyboard.
But with writing, it's very difficult to portray your mood or tone of voice. That's the one thing I find to be the most challenging. Sometimes, as I'm typing an entry, I'm thinking that if I were talking, I'd be talking very fast - like ahundredmilesanhour. Other times, I'd be drawing out my sentences - ...very....methodically....and......slow, sometimes in a very sarcastic tone of voice, sometimes in a very dry tongue-in-cheek tone of voice.
It's all difficult to portray.
I also love "big" words. Like methodically, differentiate, marvelous, detrimental, juxtapose and monochromatic. I don't always know how to use them properly but I use them anyway. I don't care if I don't use them the right way. I just like to use them because they're fun. And quite frankly, I absolutely don't know how to spell most of them. I just know how to pronounce them. Well...most of the time.
Have I also mentioned that I'm a perfectionist? (See. That was sarcastic...but you may not know that if you don't know me very well.) It drives me crazy that I don't know where to put every comma in a sentence or every 'break' in a paragraph. So I just do what I think and hope for the best. English/Reading/Literature were one of my favorite subjects in school. Second only to art. Yet, there's so much that I don't remember... It's been years, after all, since I was in school. :) (12 to-be-exact. That's about how many it takes a kid to go through school!)
Regarding the perfectionist in me, I've got some of that Poyhonen blood. But I feel very fortunate to have some of that Torola and Tormanen blood to (hopefully) balance it all out! Although, I always thought it was the Heinonen genes that gave me the perfectionism and that 'attitude', but over time, I think I've learned it's more likely due to the Poyhonen genes.
In any case...this entry is about writing.
Most of the time, I may not even make sense. I don't care. This is just my way of getting my thoughts out there. It's my form of a journal because I love to write. And if you enjoy reading it and seeing the pictures. Well then. That's just an added bonus!
2 comments:
Totally from the poyhonens. They are famous in this neck of the woods.
I like to write, too. Plus these blogs give me something to do when Adam is gone, I may become more scarce once we are gone out to the country!
I am with you on trying to portray attitude/mood/tone in writing. You think that you are being sarcastic, but it sometimes comes across differently someone else.
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