Precision of Passion

" Writing is, for most, laborious and slow. The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make the occasional wing shot, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. Like other gunners, the writer must cultivate patience, working many covers to bring down one partridge. "

- The Elements of Style by William Strunk jr. and E.B. White ( p. 69)

Through examples of Hemingway and Faulkner, The Elements of Style illuminates the English language. A book which, 5 years ago, I would have considered so dry and fruitless that I would never have picked up on my own, and would have scoffed at under academic rule. Writing has always been easy for me, but grammar has not. The same way i can live in watercolour but suffer under the duress of a technical pen.

Throughout my education I have been taught to hold a paintbrush, to see negative space, and to emphasize through colour or tone. Never have I ever been privileged to an interest in language. So here is the new chapter of my personal growth I guess, this might even be a sign of artistic maturity.

Yahoo!