
I was today years old when I found out I was never a content writer.
Meanwhile, I wrote a lot while growing up.
I scribbled my own portion of poetry lines and fiction tales.
For a long time, I wrote down my thoughts as prose and songs.
But I never felt like a true writer.
So, I read books. I took writing courses and I learnt what I was lacking.
A writer must have a structure and voice and style.
But my writing structure was as formless as an omelette.
Each time my vocabulary improved, I felt my writing structure expand like the liquid consistency of a raw egg.
And my writing voice? I came to suspect it’s sarcastic.
That’s good ( you’d think).
But, my sarcasm I fear is not the kind that tickles. It is the type that bites.
Again, and again.
“Who is a writer?” I ask.
I do not ask the wind, for it is silent. I ask you. Do these thoughts wander in your mind like raw egg in a greased pan? Or is it just me..?
Let writing either cling to me or leave me be.
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