Journal Entry 1
Hello everyone! Greetings from India! I am Madhumati Manjunath and I have recently finished my Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology. As of now, I am in a bit of a limbo because I have not decided upon a career yet. However, I have applied for a few jobs and my applications are being processed. So let's see what happens and let's hope for the best!
As far as writing is concerned, I am not new to it. I have been writing poetry since childhood and most of my poems can be found on this blog: It Can get Verse . Any reader who goes through it might infer that I write in erratic fits and starts. Well, they would be right in thinking that way. That is because I write poetry only for pleasure, not profit. So I write as and when I feel like it, instead of churning out uninspired poems with industrial prolificacy. However, I am not labouring under the delusion that my poems are perfect and I know that I have a long way to go before I attain my lofty goals.
Do I like writing? No. Do I dread it? Yes. Why, though? Well, to begin with, writing is not easy for me. The ideas that swim around in my head are like slippery little eels- words evade me when I try to pin them down on to paper. My goals are as insurmountable as the heights of Everest because I have not gathered all the literary tools I need to realise them. And writing a poem is like wading through a quagmire- the sheer effort of it is exhausting. But there is light at the end of the tunnel when something closely resembling what I had in mind finds its way on to paper.
Like I said earlier, I am aware that my writing is far from perfect and it needs improvement. I think the part of the problem is that I started writing poetry too early, which is why I have a hard time of writing coherent prose. I find it really difficult to connect two sentences in a logical manner, as a result of which my prose writing is quite erratic. I am also aware that I have some issues with grammar and syntax, since I have not learnt English grammar rigorously in school. I hope I can overcome my limitations by going through the Academic and Business Writing Course on edX.
As far as writing is concerned, I am not new to it. I have been writing poetry since childhood and most of my poems can be found on this blog: It Can get Verse . Any reader who goes through it might infer that I write in erratic fits and starts. Well, they would be right in thinking that way. That is because I write poetry only for pleasure, not profit. So I write as and when I feel like it, instead of churning out uninspired poems with industrial prolificacy. However, I am not labouring under the delusion that my poems are perfect and I know that I have a long way to go before I attain my lofty goals.
Do I like writing? No. Do I dread it? Yes. Why, though? Well, to begin with, writing is not easy for me. The ideas that swim around in my head are like slippery little eels- words evade me when I try to pin them down on to paper. My goals are as insurmountable as the heights of Everest because I have not gathered all the literary tools I need to realise them. And writing a poem is like wading through a quagmire- the sheer effort of it is exhausting. But there is light at the end of the tunnel when something closely resembling what I had in mind finds its way on to paper.
Like I said earlier, I am aware that my writing is far from perfect and it needs improvement. I think the part of the problem is that I started writing poetry too early, which is why I have a hard time of writing coherent prose. I find it really difficult to connect two sentences in a logical manner, as a result of which my prose writing is quite erratic. I am also aware that I have some issues with grammar and syntax, since I have not learnt English grammar rigorously in school. I hope I can overcome my limitations by going through the Academic and Business Writing Course on edX.
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