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The perfect article

Posted on June 8th, 2008 at 10:27am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

One of the reasons why I started this blog was saving and organizing the little articles and essays that I like to write from time to time. They could be thoughts about a social reality, or cinema critics about the last movies I’ve seen. The blog impelled me to write more, and to try to write better.

Sometimes this drags me to have certain doubts about the quality of my articles; in the end I’m not a professional journalist, nor social psychologist, nor movie critic. But I think that for being a simple amateur writer, I don’t do it that bad. However, I have to recon that sometimes I’m a perfectionist, specially with things I like or that I do well.

So one day, I write an article which is important to me for whatever reason, and I see that it looks good. With critic eye, I reread and polish it, but I’m not convinced that the article is perfect. It happened recently when writing The Puzzle of the Mind, in which I saw that the second part was not so good due to its length. I did a second version, with the intention of cutting down the last part and quicken the conclusion of the essay, thinking that this way it would get better.

The thing is that not only I did cut very little, but also that I reinforced certain paragraphs with some nuances that I forgot in the first version. Result: the article was even longer than before.

So I started to think about what it means improving the article, and what I did pretend when saying that the article should be perfect. Of course the simple concept of “perfect” is subjective; what is perfect for one, for someone else it’s unappropiate. So I simply rethought my targets when writing. And I discovered that those targets weren’t making the definite essay about social psychology, nor the ultimate critic to this or that movie. What I want is to express my opinions about such aspect of society, or whatever other movie. A subjective vision.

That’s why I “failed” miserably when trying to fix the article of The puzzle of the mind. If I were a psychologist and I wanted to make an article about overcoming traumas for my patients, I would have cut down the second part without any grief, going to the core of the matter, and avoiding roundabouts. But I’m not psychologist, I’m only a normal person who has had a personal and subjective experience with overcoming traumas. And I had to say things, and I said them. And satisfied I felt. The article was well from the beginning, because I was saying what I needed to say.

That’s why I think I didn’t write the perfect article for people who want to overcome a trauma; but I think I wrote an article very close to perfection about my personal experience with that concept I invented to overcome my past traumas.

So if you also write, you have a blog, and you like to put your opinions in written form, don’t desmay searching for an hypotetical objective perfection; just do and say what you want and need. You’ll feel better, and your little literary works will be closer to reality. Well, at least I do feel better ^_^

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