How WordPress Taught Me How To Write

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I know it sounds funny to say that a website platform could possibly teach a person something. After all, it's just a computer thing, it doesn't think or anything.

I've been writing for many years. I used to overwrite to the point that I gave up editing my work because it was just too labor-intensive. The drafts I wrote were so far from my expectations that I gave up. I just went on to write something else and compounded my mistakes in some other project.

I don't' know how it happened, but the kernel of an idea for a short story kind of blossomed in my mind and without thinking about it I sat down at my i Mac and started typing. Within a few days, I had a story and I published it on my website. That story went to number 1 in Google, eventually, in my niche, and the other search engines.

So, how did WP teach me how to write? I don't know. (Joke!) Fact is, I don't know how my brain or for that matter how anyone's brain works. All I can offer as an explanation is this: it's like working on canvas. (I'm no painter, but I've watched them work). The canvas establishes the boundary of the painting itself; you can't go beyond the edge of the canvas. So, that becomes the painter's vision, he sees how it will look when he’s finished. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the image of the painter closing an eye and using his paintbrush to figure out dimensions, etc.

That's what I saw when I sat down to write my story, directly into my post. No drafts on a word processor, or anything like that. Like I said, I just started writing. My canvas became the physical boundary of the post I was writing.

Doing it this way encourages brevity and clarity, two things that were really missing from my writing. It created a sense of immediacy in my writing. I didn't have to wait to get it published, I published it myself! That was the beauty of it. And my critics, the visitors who read my stuff, they were my editors. My God! I thought. Who needs a publisher, anyway?

So that's the story of how WordPress taught me how to write.

Bravo, it really is a writer's platform, as advertised.

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