Every once in a while it is absolutely necessary, for my sanity, to clean-up. Whether I am cleaning up the room, closet, desk, head, or heart, doesn't matter.
My newest fad is cleaning up my writing. After completing, successfully, a proof reading and copy editing course, I am happy to be testing and improving my newly found skills. I figured that the best way to keep practising is to constantly look at all the things I have written and checking how it can be better.
I have started my cleaning journey by reviewing all my blog posts, starting from the oldest in 2006. Boy, do I have a gargantuan task ahead. I can honestly say that my writing has shown signs of improvement. While a lot of my older posts were laden with passion and sometimes brimming with drama, I believe I didn't pay much attention to how good they were grammatically (This is annoying, but thankfully something I can fix)
One of the tougher aspects of reviewing my own work is the temptation to change some of the content. Eight years is a long time and I find myself looking at things differently. To be fair, most of the underlying emotions are still close to my heart, so I take a deep breath and leave all the stories, prose and poems as they are and only make corrections to the grammar.
On the other hand, as with most cleaning tasks, rediscovering some of my work (I know this sounds a bit conceited and odd - elevating my amateur writing, and calling it work!) has been rewarding and satisfying. I am thoroughly enjoying this clean-up.
So, let me get back to it, as I hope I will keep writing and that I have more opportunities to proof read and copy edit.
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