Long Term Impacts of Writing

I don't care what people say, I'm going to express myself.

October 16, 2006

Broken Typerwriter: Writing about the difficulties of writers block.

Imaging My World: How sometimes imagination can lead to unproductive day dreaming.

Points of Write: Things to think about when reading what I write and what I am truly saying.

Politics of Self-Reflection: A look at writing and self-reflection and the challenges it poses.

Rewriting History: A number of projects force Andrew to try to figure out what the meanings of words were yesterday.

Seeing Myself Through Words: How my imagination and writing can show me my new tomorrow.

Social Context of Writing: Why our own words seem so foreign over time.

Two More Years: With our contract renewed, the blog promises to exist for two more years.

Writing: A look at why I write, the costs it imposes, and the difficulty of true expression.

Writing II: Some further thoughts on the art of writing.

Long Term Impacts of Writing

People constantly tell me I need to be more careful on what I write. I am indeed creating one hell of public record. Yet, I also want to express my truself. I want everybody to see who I really am and put it out in front of people on the table. As when it's all out in public nobody really has much to fear.

I realize that everything I write comes from the context of the times I live in today. I realize I'm just a college student with big ambitions and an ever growing web blog. I'm learning from my own words ever while I write them.

I refuse to give up my own words in leiu of some hollow political ambitions. I believe the individual comes before the political, and if I don't have myself I don't have a future. I simply am never going to be the man in the gray flannel suit.