This is why I have always hated writing. Though I got 5's on my English lit and language AP’s in high school, I failed to turn a single English paper in on time. At the end of my senior year, my teacher pulled me aside and told me I would not get away with that in college. But I did get away with it by doing engineering.

But then someone pointed out how much I text freely in large volumes. Only then did I figure out I can write without it being completely miserable. Now I can write streams of consciousness. This is good enough for me because the moment I stop and start really thinking about it, I see too many ways to say the same thing and no right answers. If I stop to edit, I never finish anything. I’ll just rewrite the same thing over and over. The longer it is, the more stuck I’ll get because as the number of ideas increase, the possible ways to organize them increases exponentially.

The problem with writing is you have to think about the reader. With writing, even though of course our readers speak the same language, there are all these other contextual variables that factor into what they understand. Its fundamentally about communication.