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I’m Proud of (Almost) Everything I Have Written Here
My INFP writer’s brain likes writing here, regardless of if the feeling is mutual!
I have been flexing a different writer’s muscle over at News Break recently. It’s fast, it’s grabbing quotes, patching together tidbits* in a hopefully attention grabbing, easily digestible way. It’s like fast food for writers.
It’s fun to not stress too much about what I write there. It’s very ideas based, which is not a part of my brain that I always use here at Medium.
Sometimes I do think this way when trying to come up with something to write here initially, but I stopped trying to please the algorithm and started writing what I feel like here a while ago I now realize, for better or worse.
When I say I am proud of my writing here, it is as much about the effort, heart and soul I have put into some of it anyway, more so than the end result or success of it.
I am most proud of several things that have sank without a trace, because they were hard for me write, and healing, and ultimately I hope expressed something about the human condition that someone can relate to.
I know I’m not a perfect writer or a great writer. I have become more aware of my flaws as a writer and bad habits the more I…
