Writing

A few months ago I started this blog. The reason was very simple: I wanted to write about the things that interests me.

You may know I live in Antwerp, Belgium. This means my native language is Dutch. Throughout our education we do get English as a course next to French and German. While I personally think my English isn’t bad, it could be a lot better. Writing in an other language can be difficult and I might have underestimated it.

You will find spelling mistakes, you will find grammatical errors. The most important part is that people notify me when something goes wrong. I really appreciate it, I do.

I want to get better at writing, I really do. I love it and it’s fun. There are times when it can be frustrating if I want to express myself but I can’t because I am stuck - and by stuck I mean I don’t know how to formulate myself in English. I need to edit over and over again until I think my point is clear enough. This takes time.

When I finished an article, I ask somebody to proof read my article. That person is a native English speaker and they really help me getting better at writing. They correct my spelling and grammatical errors as well as telling me if the post has a purpose or not. To Quintin and Maxim, thanks. Check out their work!

My writing skills are far from those of Shawn Blanc or MG Siegler and my skills will never match theirs. I don’t mind that. Writing isn’t my job and it probably never will be, I just like doing it.

And I really think my writing is improving. The more I write, the better it gets. At least this is what I hope and you may notice it too (or not).

This is still the very beginning of this blog. I hope, in a year or so, the quality of my articles will be better but for now I can only try.

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