Notes From The Nether

A Better Writer

I became a better writer because in school they made me write lines for daydreaming.

I became a better writer when I realised, finally, how the rhythm of old fashioned grammar is superior to modern grammarly.

I became a better writer when I learned punctuation, proper-like.

I became a better writer when I [begrudgingly] [excitedly] accepted NewSpeak.

I became a better writer when I recognised everything I had been taught by the academy about writing is an utter load of shite.

I became a better writer when I began to write for me and nobody else.

I became a better writer when I fell in love with my audience tenderly.

I become a better writer when I tell it as it is.

I am a better writer when I write it the way it happens in my head.

I become a better writer when I write about taboo for the difficulty of forbidden topics pushes through to revelation.

I become a better writer one line at a time.

I become a better writer when I edit as I go and edit again afterward too.

I become a better writer when I drop all flowery distractions to get to the point directly.

I become a better writer when I don't try to impress, is what I'm trying to say.

I become a better writer when I remember Steven Kings advice to replace all occurrences of And But Because and Then with a full stop.

I became a better writer when I recognised how every famous book I enjoy the most breaks all the rules of writing, it's author having mastered them.

I become a better writer when I read and write stuff utterly unlike what I'm usually interested in.

I became a better writer when I gave up genre writing and unintentionally invented my own by not bothering to explain the detail.

I became a better writer when I stopped having to justify my message.

I became a better writer when I spent a decade on social media and text messages to figure out how people really function when they think nobody is reigning them in.

I became a better writer when I studied legalese, read a dictionary and thesaurus cover to cover, swallowed Jeff Noons Vurt and Needle In The Groove, Cocteau's Opium and some other street beat poetry.

I became a better writer when I use it for my trauma therapy to express the fucked up experiences I've had to live through.

I became a better writer because of lack of a regular sex partner to distract me from life's purpose.

I became a better writer when I quit taking other writers advice.

I became a better writer when I accepted I ain't never gonna get published and the literal million other aspiring writers better at marketing but worse at ingenuity probably care about me less than I care about them.

I became a better writer when I stopped avoiding my own gaze and swallowed the shadow self.

I become a better writer when I drop the ego's influence to develop it for the sake of the story instead.

I became a better writer when I learned how to use a plan.

I became a better writer when I discovered filter coffee.

I became a better writer when I accepted the discipline of short bursts stuck together as a continuum of relatable incidents.

I became a better writer when I deleted a hard drive of ten years of graft and accepted it humbly.

I became a better writer when I learnt how to make backups to the cloud and publish stuff into the Internet and print hard-copy so it does not disappear forever.

I became a better writer when I stopped caring what other people think.

I became a better writer when I stopped giving advice on better writing.

I became a better writer when I stopped writing about writing.