Once you know you can't not know...

I truly believe in the good things coming. And as I write this blog for an Academic and Business Writing course to clarify different writing styles for me in my profession I savor the opportunity to use more of my creativity that gets hidden from view during my grant writing, board reporting, program assessments, and organization reports. I'm trying to be more precise in my professional writing and not dangle any participles yet my college education was one of creative writing and literature. Free flowing, stream of consciousness beauty that seems to be creeping into my reports.

I enjoy writing and become frustrated when my brain and conscious thought can't turn the creative, comparative, academic switch off and turn the data driven, analytical switch on. Which voice do I use? I'm not even conscious about that and when writing grants or persuasive speeches I feel as though I lose people because it's not as tightly worded and fact driven as it should be. I do love writing both for business and pleasure - professional and literary. I need to find a more defined separation between the two.

When I have writer's block the mantra, "Say what you need to say..." pops into my head so then I start writing. As alluded to earlier, this doesn't always offer the most successful results. I need to improve in keeping my "personal" voice out of my business writing yet still be able to be creative when I journal and write for myself.