sad, but true

i've had a huge desire to write and blog recently but i can't seem to find the time. finals are here and i'm trying to catch up on anything that isn't done as well as finish up final projects and such. i really want to write about several things, but unfortunately i don't have the time to sit and do it. hopefully by the time i go on break i will still have these thoughts and inspirations and i'll be able to write about them. but for now, i need to try to channel my desire to write "recreationally" into a desire to write my 12 page paper...

short, sweet, and to the point...that's how i roll

one of the latest compliments to my writing was this:

"...very clear and interesting."

i have heard that same comment many times. when i write, i do my best to get my point across as clearly as i can. i edit and re-edit in order to make every sentence say what it needs to, and not much more. but when i write entire papers i tend to be repetitive and, in my opinion, boring.

as much as i like to be clear on concise, i think i'm missing a lot of the fun and creative side of writing. i don't use my vocabulary as much as i could in my writing. it seems to me that everything i write (no matter what the requirements are) is written like a research paper or a textbook. it's informative and maybe interesting, but not recreational, fun reading.

i am jealous of my friends who can write what they want to say, but make it sound elegant or fun. i aspire to write like that.

i would never choose to read the things i write. not because i'm the writer and i think they suck, but because they aren't the types of things that would catch my attention and beg me to read them.

why isn't my writing style reflective of my reading preferences?