You know when you have your squad, and you all have different talents and attributes, but you all get along anyway? Yeah. I do too. Most of my friends are nerds, and art kids. (And a lot of theatre kids. Especially now that I am in college). Okay, but everyone in my friend groups knows I like to write. They know I write for this website. They know I am writing a novel series in my free time (that my sister is still typing up, what a champ). They know I have a boundless supply of journals (I collect journals for me to write in, if you want to donate any, please, hit me up). But then, they read my writing, and love it.
But then the worst happens.
"Hey Jelly! Can you help me write my paper!"
"Jelly can you revise my paper!"
"Jelly I wrote the paper. But it sucks. Please help."
At the first one, I say no.Because they need to suffer like every other college student, and write it out. Now I do not mind revising things. As it helps me in a way too. It helps me see what is effective and what is ineffective.I learn from my peers on how to vary opinion and such. But this. It takes up a lot of my very precious writing time. But revising people's papers does help me try out new sentence variation and combination, I will admit that.
"But Jelly! You wanna be a writer!"
Yes I know that dear reader.But writers and editors are completely different things. Writers write. Editors edit. But alas, people blur the two and it gets tricky. I usually tell my peers and friends who ask me for help, to at least give the paper to me a few days in advanced. Because I, dear reader, hate having to revise something an hour before it is due. I like taking out all my pretty pens and writing comments and then sitting down with the person and their paper and give them suggestions on improvement and all that jazz.
Only like two people follow my advice.
And that drives me nuts. Because then I get the whole "Why can't I write as good as you!" complaints. I drown them out. Because I do give suggestions. I give people prompts to practicing writing about rather than playing mind numbing games on their devices. Maybe I'm just weird. But if you want to get good, then start practicing. I have been writing for a very long time. Am I perfect at it? Of course not. But at least I took a stand, and started jogging to my goal.
So dear reader, do this author a favor. Do some practice writing. Like writing in a journal. Ya know. And don't complain to your writing friends "why can't I write as good as you!"
That is all.
