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+++ title = "Tone" date = 2024-07-30 +++
I spent so long writing the keyboard lighting post that writing about writing that post has become its own post to write.
I'm kind of stuck.
You see, I can't figure out the proper tone to use while writing these things.
I probably rewrote that one at least four times in the 3 months between getting that keyboard and putting up this site publicly with that post on it. (It was the first real post other than the introduction)
And, of course, I'm still not happy with it. It's only public because I can't stand editing that same file over and over anymore, and keeping it in the Ever-Growing Bin of Unfinished Posts would make the time spent on it effectively a waste.
{% note() %} It's not any less of a waste public, since it's unlikely anyone will ever read it, but, on the other hand, writing it and keeping it private isn't a waste either, since it was good writing practice and something I wanted to do. I don't know. You can't expect my reasoning to make sense. I don't make sense to myself either. {% end %}
There are some patterns I've noticed with my writing:
- My sentence structure gets really repetitive unless I actively try to break it up
- I use a quite a few kind of noncommittal words that are sort of just filter, like "really", "kind of", "maybe", "sort of", etc.
- I gravitate toward self-deprecation and discounting my own worth because I'm terrified of coming off as overconfident/hubristic
- I either use way, wayyy, too, many, commas, everywhere, or too few of them in incredibly long run-on sentences that drag on forever and ever as if the person writing them forgot that she could use this piece of punctuation known as a "period" or a "full stop" to break long pieces of text into multiple sentences instead of stringing them together to the point where it becomes difficult to read
I could maybe try going the todepond route, but I don't think that would fit with the things I'm likely to write about, or really me in general, if that makes sense.
{% note() %} If it wasn't obvious by the number of links, their wikiblogarden-thing is a pretty major inspiration, and probably the reason I sat down to write anything in the first place. {% end %}
I don't know how to write any sizeable amount of text without it being super repetitive, too dry, and generally unpleasant to read. It never flows quite the way I want it to. And then, I go around in circles making tiny edits for hours without actually writing anything of value, because it just isn't "perfect enough" yet.
I'm not sure if there's anything I can directly do to fix this, other than practice. Write a bunch of not-so-great stuff, try not to worry about it not being absolutely perfect, and slowly improve and refine my "style" over time.
So... I guess that's what I'm going to do!