Casual writing like journaling.

[Paul James]

I wrote in a journal for fifteen years without editing, now I love it! I have a love/hate relationship going with Grammarly, is that practical to write casually in a journal, with a editor? I am not a story writer I write from my heart and mind without cursing, is darn a cuss word? To me there is to many rules and regs in syntax and usage.

I could not write a story if I had to. I write about my experiences in my life, I must search and learn how to write a short story, like Dick and Jane in the twenty-first century. Why do they call it the twenty-first century in twenty fifteen? About technology, it's rumored in California someone has invented a talking urinal, question what does it talk about?

Technology turned ill moral I guess? Paul

 

[DoItMyself]

I've always felt that you should write the way to speak if you're writing for something like a journal or diary. Writing for the public is a bit different, but if you're writing for yourself you should follow your own rules.

 

[Paul James]

I've always felt that you should write the way to speak if you're writing for something like a journal or diary. Writing for the public is a bit different, but if you're writing for yourself you should follow your own rules.

Excellently said. Thank you. Finally someone who knows what I am talking about. How do I put you on my buddy list? Paul

 

[Paul James]

Casual writing thoughts?

About casual writing. Thought. If I wrote as I spoke would that break the rules and regs of writing? When I speak I just speak whatever comes to mind, could I also do this when I write and still be within the rules and regs of writing? Paul

 

[Denise1952]

Rule breakers have been given things like the Nobel Prize, or other of the highest honors

 

[Paul James]

Rule breakers have been given things like the Nobel Prize, or other of the highest honors

You mean there's hope for me to be a writer...yet? Thank you. Paul

 

[Denise1952]

I read a lot, I prefer reading books that I know are from the heart of a person. Even the fiction I read, you can tell it's much of what the author feels, thinks about, and has experienced. Good grammar and punctuation is also something I happen to like because it gives more credibility to the book/author, imo. But a little slang, or an occasional cuss word is reality in life, so why not in a book denise

 

[Paul James]

Writing style.

I think I have found my writing style, it's write what you feel emotionally, but without slang cuss words. I am a moralist at heart and write with honesty and casual style language like I am doing now. it was extremely hard to understand syntax usage and rules and regulations in the beginning, but now things are beginning to be better understood. I am in a love and hate with Grammarly, it's smarter than I am.
Paul