Writing with a sharp pencil...

I was just surfing the web and I realized that most every blog I see is vomit on a page. So I came up with some things that sets apart good writing from bad writing. How do we think clearly? How do we process things logically? So one of my professors helped me out with some things we can do so that we can make our flakey overrated blogs into coherent thoughts.
So in order to write clearly we have to think clearly. So there are two main “pit falls” that cause poor thinking: the first one is PRIDE, when we are prideful we can get stuck in the illusion that what matters most is us. Our selfishness and egotistic mindsets will reflect onto our writing and ultimately give off a vibe of self-centeredness. Who wants to read what a prideful person writes?
The second “pit fall” is the opposite of pride, insecurity, insecurity breeds literature that reflects a lower view of self worth than is actually true. Insecurity creates writing that is filled with loathing, self doubting, self pity and unappealing content all around.
Not only are there “pit falls” there also barriers that hinder us from thinking clearly and ultimately writing clearly. The first one is being busy; when we are busy we are distracted. We especially have this problem in the United States where we never have time to think, just do, mindlessly. The second barrier which is closely related is information overload; nowadays we have so much technological clutter that it causes us to think less on our own. If we want information we don’t search our brains we search Google! We don’t fill our brains like people used to when they didn’t have computers and cell phones. And the last barrier is tiredness, but that one is more obvious.
One tip to writing well is this, if you read well then you will think well and if you think well… you will write well! So read intelligent books!

I was going to write more but I decided to split it up into two posts so standby for part 2!

-justin