A revelation

The strangest thing happened to me earlier.

I realized how to write.

I was in my English class, and the teacher said something about sentence structure, and I just suddenly understood everything I was doing wrong with my writing and what I had to change.

For the past month or so, I have been wondering how to write a calm, relaxing beginning to a book while still setting the stage for the story and creating suspense. And now I know. And because I know that, I know how to write the rest of a story as well.

More importantly (or perhaps more accurately) I discovered my own writing style - or rather, the refined version of it. So from now on I'll be able to write better, all because of a random revelation.

I can't tell you exactly what it is that I realized, first of all because I don't know how to explain it in a way that would make sense and fully describe it properly, and also because it will only really make sense in my head. Only I can put this idea into my words.

I don't mean to be reserving or selfish - I seriously don't know how to explain it exactly. But I can say that it involves not overusing commas. This is something I am notorious for, even without realizing it. Using short to medium length sentences without commas sets a good tone for the beginning of a story, I think, as well as other parts of a book.

If that last paragraph didn't make sense or doesn't really help, you have my leave to completely ignore and/or forget about it.

It was such a wierd experience...I mean, it just all CAME to me...it was very distracting for the rest of the class. Maybe it's because I was thinking about writing so much for about a week before that, although I hadn't really thought about writing at all in the morning before it.

Ciao!