Writer's Journal # 4

“Short sweet, and to the point. Clear writing and therefore clear commands come from clear thinking. Think simple.” (Tim Ferriss) Confronting the monster of my childhood is where I got misunderstood and I confronted this person through text message. In the message I had written to them I stated to them that had caused me to be depressed, have anxiety and not trust anyone or love them in anyway and how it has affected me in my life. I wanted them to know that I was getting help and I wasn’t going to let them affect me anymore. They needed to know that what they did was wrong, and they had taken something from me, and I could never get it back. When you take a child’s innocence away from them, it’s something that can never be given back it is gone for good.

Maybe I wasn’t emotional enough with my words or maybe I should have pushed it

more and made them understand me. I feel as though my mistake in this situation was, I didn’t go through my ideas and make sense of them. My mistake was going in and just writing down anything that was in mind instead of first jotting down the ideas then writing the draft first. All my ideas or thoughts had gotten in the way of the actual point I was trying to get across to them. The goal of messaging them was to let them know the pain I was in, but I hadn’t gotten through.

Next time I will make sure to write down on a separate piece of paper all the things I would like to tell them. After doing that I will write a draft and read it over a couple of times before sending it to them. Having someone else read it ensures more clarifying which means less room for mistake. I will make sure to add more writing skills to text messages or even messages. I know doing all these writing steps will help build as a writer and be more understandable when I message people.