In the middle of last year, 2010, I decided to change my writing style to some extent, in the hope of improving the experience for the reader.
In my 3rd ebook, ‘A happy, happy story’, which compiles the work I did in 2010, I said on Page 78,
“July marked a change in my writing, from different forms here and there, to more of a plain voice in a diary.
Instead of just sounding creatively imaginative, there is now more effort to describe and explain things more simply to the reader.”
Now, as August 2011 ends, I find myself wanting to write more plainly again.
I hope to use more of the tone and style that I am using here, in my writing from here onwards.
I have found that beyond having fun in the playground of words, I also want to send my message as clearly as possible to the reader.
I think that is what personal publishing is about.
As an example of how my writing can change, this was what I wrote as the starting paragraphs of my most recent post here which is tagged under ‘post’ — ‘The afflicted giant’ —
“There has always been the giant. It sits waist deep in the murky waters of the unconscious.
Persistently obstinate, its body is the enduring repository of the past, the inertia of karma from persistent habits, habits from tendencies of life, habits which ultimately craft one’s fate.”
Rewriting it, I might express the same material in this way:
“I think there is a giant in my mind, and there are also similar giants in your minds too.
It hides in the unconscious, away from our waking and conscious thoughts, words and actions.
This giant in each of our minds carries all of our past, the actions which have become our habits, the habits which form karma, and the karma that seems to lock in our fates.”
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(If you are interested in buying my ebook of 2010 works, you can click on A happy, happy story.)
