3:35pm February 10, 2012

The thing I’m trying to say

Is that right now, my ability to write things that I want to write, is being hindered. And it’s being hindered by the uses I’ve seen such writing put to. By people who think activism is all about language. My problem in writing it, is every time I try to put all the details in, my brain just goes “Sorry, not doing it.” Yet without the details, the statements are pretty readily misunderstood. And I know that any writing can be put to both good and bad uses. But when I write about anything that involves language use right now, all I see in my head is some unsuspecting person getting dogpiled and ripped to shreds for using the wrong language or not using the right language. And seeing words or phrases from my writing among the dogpiling and just wanting to slam my head on something because people are mistaking pushing words around for activism. I’m sure this feeling will pass, but right now it’s really inhibiting my ability to write anything.

Wow, I sort of wrote it. Not how I intended it, but oh well.

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