I've found there is no hard rule for how alike or how unlike we should be around others. It's always a "read the room" thing for me. I can say for sure that it holds true that to be viral, you have to be great, or you have to be horrible. Good is boring. Average is dull. Of course we should be precise when, for instance, writing software documentation for a large company. When we are blogging, a little flair let's me know who I'm letting in my head— maybe my heart. For example, I've been told that swearing is wrong and unprofessional and perhaps it is within the context of work emails and things that represent the company. Everyone loves my Java teacher (who is super tight) because his code of conduct is "Don't be a d*ck." You see even if everything else is bland, that one thing says, "there is more to this dude than we know." Ha! Being eloquent is over-rated. I especially love when carefully crafted flowing words are interrupted with a change in emotional frequency, and with it, language... You know what I mean?
Would you let you lose yourself in a relationship? I feel like writing is a relationship between the writer and the reader. Who am I loving if I'm hearing myself speak?
Yep, it's always this question of "with which voice should I write?" I've finally settle on "mine". I can try and pander to some ideal "standard" or some templatised way of writing but that just ends up getting in the way. Once I have to play hopscotch with words, the message gets tainted as well and soon enough it sounds like AI writing.
I've arrived kind of where I started. "Everybody's darling is everybody's fool." This whole vanity paint-job of predefined phrases didn't work for me. I rather stay "me" and be OK with some people not liking that.
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I've found there is no hard rule for how alike or how unlike we should be around others. It's always a "read the room" thing for me. I can say for sure that it holds true that to be viral, you have to be great, or you have to be horrible. Good is boring. Average is dull. Of course we should be precise when, for instance, writing software documentation for a large company. When we are blogging, a little flair let's me know who I'm letting in my head— maybe my heart. For example, I've been told that swearing is wrong and unprofessional and perhaps it is within the context of work emails and things that represent the company. Everyone loves my Java teacher (who is super tight) because his code of conduct is "Don't be a d*ck." You see even if everything else is bland, that one thing says, "there is more to this dude than we know." Ha! Being eloquent is over-rated. I especially love when carefully crafted flowing words are interrupted with a change in emotional frequency, and with it, language... You know what I mean?
Would you let you lose yourself in a relationship? I feel like writing is a relationship between the writer and the reader. Who am I loving if I'm hearing myself speak?
Okay, this has gotten existential for me. Lol.
I hope your article goes well.
Thanks, I hope so too :)
Yep, it's always this question of "with which voice should I write?" I've finally settle on "mine". I can try and pander to some ideal "standard" or some templatised way of writing but that just ends up getting in the way. Once I have to play hopscotch with words, the message gets tainted as well and soon enough it sounds like AI writing.
I've arrived kind of where I started. "Everybody's darling is everybody's fool." This whole vanity paint-job of predefined phrases didn't work for me. I rather stay "me" and be OK with some people not liking that.