I agree, but I know I’ll never get there anyway. People would immediately dismiss my entries as mere rants at my shortcomings.

elitist.

hehehe

I hope I don’t belong to the latter category! I better start sprucing up my vocabulary and grammar!

But seriously, I agree with you regarding proper English know how. Nothing is more terrible than a person seeming knowledgeable about English yet trash it at every sentence. Proper usage is just appropriate.

P.S. Cute new header! The signature was a nice addition.

niko: how many times do i have to tell you that i like how you write? if only you would rant less, i would like your writing better.

graymalkin: true.

jigs: everyone has got a long way to go.

as for people who might notice, this post is badly written.

patay tayo diyan

mukhang mas malapit ako sa latter category. hehe hope you had a nice weekend liz

i am my own worst critic so i don’t think i can ever say that my writing is good enough. there are really good blog writers out there and not that good as well. i don’t really mind much about grammar but i do mind when bloggers just write about the weather and how busy they are and stuff that doesn’t really make up a story worth to tell. i don’t know… maybe i do that same mistake but i try really hard not to.

totomai: nicer than yours? i disagree!

evi: at least you’re aware, right? that’s the most important thing.

after I’ve posted something, I sometimes wish that people criticize my stuff, my writing and my photos. I know that I can tell a story but my vocabulary isn’t that wide. And my grammers? oh my golly, I were very bad at thems. So yes, tinamaan ako dito sa post mo.

also, I wanted to mail you since last week and ask: how can I improve? what do I lack? I know you can point out heaps but generally, what do I need to do? help!

when I started blogging, I thought I was good. But when I read yours and TMB’s, (especially squid’s), I told myself that I should stick to photo blogging! hehe.

I hate you guys.

I love reading your stuff too.

“Ignorance is not an excuse to express yourself dumbly.”

I agree.

Discipline in writing is discipline itself. It is not conformity. I used to think it is conformity.

I like to improve my grammar and mechanics but I am a classic procrastinator.
I keep it that way. To expresss myself in a flawed language for I am just someone who writes, never a writer.

I admire people who wrote in neat english.

Tinamaan ako. Wahhhh ayoko na… ang dami ko pang alibi..

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Take care.

rex: thanks. i’ll email you (or better yet, ym) tonight to talk about my comments.

dave: you say you are someone who write, but is never a writer. but you do want to be a writer, right? well then, you know what to do.

I am guilty of a few different writing felonies you’ve mention (take, for example, my lack of clarity and excess of all the dumb pomposity).

My greatest shortcoming is in not knowing how to conclude. I’ve thrown drafts because I couldn’t come up with a suitable end. Can you give tips on how to end a piece?

you say you are someone who write, but is never a writer. but you do want to be a writer, right? well then, you know what to do.

I appreciate Dave for his humility, but I think he writes better than he’d admit. On the other hand, I detest those who claim they are writers just because they blog, the same way as how I hate those who claim they are photographers just because they have an Olympus and can do blurs and shit with Pirateshop.

Awwww Liz, Hugz! Also, I’m fat?

Wow! I got special mention.

Yehey! I feel like I won an award or something. Thanks Liz. Coming from you, and at the risk of turning this into a mutual admiration group, that means a lot coz I, too, admire your writing skills. And you’re still in college? Man! Wished my skills were as developed when I was your age.

Though I don’t understand why you should feel the need to burden yourself with the “bad writers.” I think that when you sift through the colloquialism and the grammatical mistakes, there’s a personal story there somewhere. Or you could just stop reading. Hehehe.

off topic, the header looks cute and you look cute in pink. What’s that behind the shrubbery? A garbage can?

yes, mike, you are.

pablo: that’s a good angle—the personal story angle. the personal story might be good, but if it’s written badly, it’s lost. sayang, di ba?

that thing behind the shrubbery is a thingy that, er, i dunno. good question. it’s definitely not a garbage can. maybe a cemented compost hole?

darn, burst my bubble right there. and i thought i was a heck of a writer.

hey fence, i see you’re back in i.ph.

you are one heck of a writer. always thought so.

Hey thanks for the complement, Liz. I think you’re a great writer too.

I’d like to add something for Rex who thinks he can’t be a good writer because he says he doesn’t have a wide vocabulary. Perish the thought, man. You don’t have to be as verbose as HP Lovecraft to capture your audience. Hemingway was frugal (I’m tempted to say ascetic) when it comes to words but his ideas were powerful indeed. Kerouac invented words and in his drug-addled writing state didn’t seem to give a flying fart about the rules of sentence construction (of course, I have to add that before you can break the rules you have to know them intimately first).

Read lots and write lots. That’s the best advice Stephen King has for the aspiring wordslinger.