Writing

This is my first post. I'm not here to introduce myself, I'm here to write, so let's get on with it.


Writing is a conundrum. It's simple enough when you know what you want to say. All you have to do is take your ideas and straighten them out a bit, like a shirt on an ironing board, and before you know it, you have a snappy outfit ready to go, one that, when you wear it, tells the world, "I'm a smart, educated person, and you can trust me!". But sometimes, you have to write from scratch. No topic, just whatever comes out. Suddenly, you're trying to iron some sort of cloth moebius loop and you just keep working more wrinkles into it until no one knows what it was for in the first place and you'd look crazy if you wore it out for the world to see. Sort of like that metaphor. It's messy and endless and probably makes me look crazy.


I've been trying to write lately. Anything. I mean to become a freelancer and make money when I feel like it by ironing out thoughts so other people can pick them up and look classy. A dry cleaner for thoughts! Except, I need to prove I can do it, and that takes some sort of example of my skills. And that's where it all goes downhill. It's never, "Write 300 words about the mating rituals of elephants" or "Write a how-to article about origami flowers". Just, "provide a writing sample". BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?! Writing is more than just putting words on a page. An artist can throw paint at a canvas all day, but it's not art until they try to convey something with it.