All right, then, I'll go to hell.

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself… Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph." - Mark Twain

For me, getting the right word in the right place is extremely hard. I constantly feel as if I'm rambling on and on and on and on and getting nowhere near the point I am trying to make; crop circling. Complex issues and theories are much better when condensed; the writing doesn't have to have a million fancy words sparkling all over the paper, just a few choice words to get straight to the point. Tom Robbins, one of my favorite story-tellers, would spend hours figuring out the wording in only one sentence and his writing is amazing. Whether writing on a type writer, paper, or online, the wording must be perfect and that takes a lot of practice. Although it may take a long time to get the wording right, I feel like it is of the utmost importance in great writing.

"It is no use to keep private information which you can’t show off." - Mark Twain

My thoughts on this are teetering back and forth, like a seesaw. There are so many things I write down that, to me, are great pieces of writing. The problem is... they are private and I don't really want to hear what anyone else has to say. Underneath all the nerves, I really would like to show some of it off, but I doubt I'll ever do that. I am certain people will think I'm crazy and I expect that because I am completely off-the-wall bonkers. I just feel sometimes that my thoughts should remain mine forever and outside influence should never become a factor in trying to change them.