It's Not Always About Perfection, Little Shakespeare

"Don't aim for perfection."

At least if you're trying to write a blog. This was an advice given by a friend while I was ranting about trying my best to write a blog post for a website at work

It struck me.

You see, when you think about perfection in writing a post, you unconsciously put barriers around your mind, your feelings, yourself; trying your hardest to comply and restrict yourself with the technical guidelines of writing that you learned back in English class in high school. All this for one, at least the major, reason: Impressing your readers.

"Maybe the readers will say that I don't know how to use the correct grammar, the correct punctuation."

But when you think and reflect more about it, you begin to realize that you forgot the main reason why you were writing in the first place.  You tend to forget that the reason why you're writing that  blog is to express yourself rather than to impress other people.

And when you're expressing yourself, the only audience that you have is yourself (and God, if I may incorporate my being Christian in this post). And when you start thinking that the means and ends of your post is to express yourself, you tend to break away the barriers of impressing and adhering to the guidelines.

One point of clarification though, before you throw your eggs and tomatoes at me: the law-less way of writing I'm talking about is only for the sole purpose of expressing yourself and your ideas in an informal way AND NOT TO BE USED IN SUBMITTING FORMAL LETTERS AND ARTICLES. Unless you want your boss, or your readers, to throw eggs and tomatoes at you , too.

One benefit of only impressing yourself is the free flow of ideas you have in your mind be put into words and phrases without caring if anyone would judge you. Actually, as I write this post, I just let the words and the ideas flow freely (but also putting a little care about my spelling). And I don't care if you judge me. :P I just let myself, and my words and phrases, be.

So, go on, write yourself a piece of free and imperfect post. Your self would thank you for that (especially if your post wasn't really made to be read by the public). :)


And to you, dear friend, thank you. :)

"Artistic licence (also known as dramatic license, historical license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, or simplylicense) is a colloquial term, sometimes euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist to improve a piece of art. "

(Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_license> )