{"id":23481,"date":"2026-08-12T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=23481"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:49:53","slug":"being-okay-at-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/08\/12\/being-okay-at-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"being okay at writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t really like writing. It takes forever to come up with an idea, and when I do come up with something I have no clue how to execute it without sounding like a 12 year olds first post after discovering tumblr. I don’t understand poetry and I hate flash fictions, if I write something while I\u2019m sad or angry I feel like I just sound edgy. My loves always lied with performance arts, but I HATE performing. I get shaky and nervous and my voice cracks or goes ridiculously high out my usual range and its humiliating. I do draw but I never show others, especially now that I\u2019m at a school where every other person is a visual arts student.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, you may be wondering, (motioning your words as a sock puppet) \u201cwhy are you at an arts school if you hate all the forms of art and why are you a literary student if you don’t like to write\u201d well that is a great question! I don\u2019t know. I know I can write, that’s how I got in in the first place, but I\u2019ve been stuck on what I’m gonna do when I inevitably realize I\u2019m not cut out for this, I mean the last serious piece I wrote before my portfolio was when I was 14. I considered switching disciplines, maybe I\u2019d be better in theatre, but then comes back the point of my performance anxiety, so I was feeling stuck for a few days when that hit me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its been on my mind since I got here but I think I finally figured out my issue. Its not that I hate writing or I\u2019m scared of performing, Its that I\u2019m immediately setting certain expectations for myself for stuff that I have barely any experience in and I\u2019m being my own critic and I\u2019m biased against myself. I know some of my ideas for stories aren’t that bad, my acting could use some work but thats normal, because I\u2019ve never been an actor before, but when I\u2019m looking at it from an outside lens and comparing it to established writers or actors relatively it looks.. Pretty bad in all honesty. But thats okay!!!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Its taken myself and embarrassing amount of time to realize I\u2019m judging myself harsher and quicker before anyone else could, and I think a lot of people do that and don\u2019t realize. You\u2019re not gonna be the best at something (unless your me because I\u2019m the best at everything) but you should still be proud of the work you do put effort into. For example, this blog post!! I\u2019ve had no clue what I was gonna write, because I thought all the ideas I had were kinda meaningless or stupid. Thats actually how I\u2019ve been thinking of most of my literary assignments (pls don\u2019t do this I\u2019m gonna end up in procrastination purgatory soon) but now that I actually sat down and wrote it, I like this a lot. So to whoever’s reading this, do whatever you\u2019ve been putting off because you have no ideas for it !!! you will regret it if you don’t take it from me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t really like writing. It takes forever to come up with an idea, and when I do come up with something I have no clue how to execute it without sounding like a 12 year olds first post after discovering tumblr. I don’t understand poetry and I hate flash fictions, if I write something … Continue reading “being okay at writing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23520,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions\/23520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}