Wednesday, January 28, 2009

back in business

Ok, I'd like to declare this blog open and back for business again. It's been too, too long since I've gotten any real writing practice - and it took a reminder, from a particularly sharp-minded former student of my dad's, that writing loses its edge (in Chinese, 'bu2 li4') once you stop doing it for too long to scare me out of my complacency. Writing is the one thing I know I do well. I cannot, will not, let it go.

The other thing that has hindered me from writing in this blog is that, honestly, after all a while it stopped being a place for me to practise, and started being a place for me to show off instead. I became so conscious of the quality of the writing that I posted here, that it became impossible to really write anything for "practice". So this time I'm gonna try to leave me ego out of this, and really make this a platform for practising my writing, which was the original purpose in the first place.
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