Quality Writing

I was thinking over the last couple of days, how I could be writing on specific subjects, rather than the whole this is what I did today thing - the BIG subjects, like war, religion, abortion, homosexuality. I wonder how good I could be if I concentrated on something and put something down on 'paper'. I think I tried to start the last couple of entries, what with the 1991 Gulf War and seeing a church spire every day walking to work, but I read back over them, and they both were pretty damp squibs. Too many distractions perhaps, too little concentration, too much tiredness maybe. But I would like to challenge myself to write something well again.

I just think back to my depression series that I wrote up the middle of last year. Just scooping out the deepest thoughts I have, holding them up to the microscope, analysing them, showing them for public display. And I was proud of what I was writing, it was a therapy of sorts.

And, after some of that feedback about three weeks ago now, I have been trying to just write about myself, rather than the 'what is on the news at the moment that is pissing me off' trick. As stated, everyone knows where the BBC or CNN or Sydney Morning Herald websites are. Sometimes I miss writing about it, mostly I don't.

And the funny thing is that the less I write about what is happening in the world, the more I avoid the news - I mean, I still skim the ABC and BBC front pages, but I don't drill down in the New York Times or Guardian to find particularly annoying stories to rant about as I used to. Maybe not reading the news every ten minutes is a good thing?

Or maybe I am just filling up the time with flickr and sports websites :)

Or, going back to the first couple of paragraphs, maybe another good topic to try quality writing on would be where is my life headed? Or maybe that topic is too big for one website alone LOL, bring on the crossover epic :)

I will quality write again, one day, I promise.

Paul