ITS SOOO SIMPLE

It took me many years of English and writing classes before I realized that I was making writing much harder than it needed to be. Eventually, after enough years of classes and practice at writing, I realized that the keys to writing are simply observation and description. In order to write about a situation, first I have to observe the situation and notice all the details, especially the trivial things that stick in my mind, because they don’t fit the situation. Once I have looked at the situation and all of the details surrounding it, then the remaining task is describing what I have seen. For a long time, I found it very difficult and nearly impossible to describe a situation because I though there was some special way to write it. Finally, I realized that the best way to write was to mentally tell a friend about what I was writing about, and then write those words down. Once I realized that writing was just telling someone what I had seen or felt and then going back and cleaning up what I had written to make it more understandable and grammatical, writing became much easier.