#but i for the most part like my writing style. i moan sometimes abt sucking at certain things but i genuinely don’t believe my writing is

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i watched a vid the other day of this person reviewing the ‘im glad my mom died’ memoir and they talked a lot abt the like. stylistic/writing choices made by the author that worked really well and i enjoyed that approach to a book review bc i like hearing abt what Works when writing you know so i watched another of their vids for a different celebrity’s memoir and this one was a lot more critical (they very obviously didn’t like this person but idk how much that rlly impacted the review itself) and while i appreciated the examples given of like. how Not to write/stuff that sometimes doesn’t work or doesn’t flow as well they started bringing out really technical rules of grammar/writing on talked abt how it was All Wrong and how the memoir was in desperate need of editing bc how could anyone have let this be published

and it just got me thinking bc like. i’m not gonna say i’m an expert on the english language or anything like this person very obviously is more educated on that then me but idk. i feel like i’m generally a decent judge on whether a sentence flows well/sounds right and i think im able to make a distinction between something being technically grammatically incorrect but still sounding good and having an obvious reason for being written that way vs something being wrong technically And that affecting it’s readability or impact of what it’s meant to Do stylistically. like idk ig that’s just the way that person reviews books but it just felt so extremely limited and constrained bc i know i regularly Choose to sometimes write in a style that isn’t wholly correct or ‘proper’ english but it’s not bc im like being deliberately obtuse or don’t know the rules. sometimes i just think the rules are a little dumb n that my writing will sound n flow better the way i do it.

and idk i just think it was a little annoying to watch in their example bc i listened to all the lines they critiqued n Why/How they were Totally Wrong and i couldn’t help but be like okay… but they sound fine to me. like you obviously got what was being said and it read well so…? although i guess whether it sounds good or flows well is more objective so like they were entitled to their own opinion and all i just didn’t like the way they positioned writing as something that must follows these arbitrary rules as if not following them means anything or has any moral value you know…

#x #lol does this make sense… i hope it does #idk it’s just like. i mean obviously there’s some general conventions you follow to make sure your writing is coherent and Makes Sense #but so many other rando rules r just dressing you know… #plenty of authors write in a style that doesn’t completely abide by grammatical conventions and like. that doesn’t make them Bad Writers #they just made an active choice to not follow those rules bc they thought what they wanted to do would work better for their writing #and thats. idk that’s a good thing to me i guess. #again i’m not saying i’m an expert or professional by any means obviously. and i don’t have any real training or like. took classes outside #of whatever i learned in school lmao #but i for the most part like my writing style. i moan sometimes abt sucking at certain things but i genuinely don’t believe my writing is #bad quality or anything. and i Do make the choice to ignore certain rules n stuff all the time just bc i think my writing wouldn’t sound as #good otherwise 🤷 idk. it just felt very holier than thou lol. maybe it just rubbed me the wrong way bc of that #the vid n youtuber doesn’t even matter or anything but yeah. id just been mulling over this for a hot second so. long ramble !