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thanks.

What I mean is, when you are witing an article, you are not only putting work in it, thinking about it and creating it wholeheartedly, but you are also enclosing your very own emotions and the way you perceive the thing you are writing about, in the text. Even if you are not able to feel it with your heart as much as you want, it will, it surely will, be perceived as wonderful if you want it to be good.
The perfectness cannot be obtained here – you can strive for it, but the thing you should do is to encourage yourself to feel that your writings are wonderful – if we were all to write “perfectly”, then our textx would be pretty much the same, so reading it’ll be very boring after some time.

Of course, there’s no reason to write “verbal rubbish” you’d mentioned in your article, but the only way not to create it is not to want it to be bad.

But there is one thing I’d like to recommend to you – if you fele like you are not good enough to write great articles, then just try to write something else; don’t write something with different style, but just something that is different by itself – a poem, an unusual story, maybe even a song. Just try to enclose the most of your emotions you can into it, and then try to do the same with your articles (I’m recommending it because it’s a little easier to put your very own emotions in something that is intended to carry them).

“If you feel happy, may your writings rise people’s souls to the sun and warm them little by little, until the moment they start to dream.
If you feel sad, may your writings pour a cold, yet gentle rain on them, until their tears merge with rain.
If you feel angry, may your writings scream violently and loudly, until they start to scream for the same reason.

There’s nothing other in writing and reading but keeping feelings and perceiving them.”

Saying that, I have to go and study for my tomorrow exam, but I hope anybody’ll find it useful…

I totally understand the whole “my writing is bad” thing. Like you, my livelihood is based on writing. Like you, I often think that I don’t have any particular skill in writing.

When I realized that, I started reading the articles that my colleagues have written. And start picking up their way of structuring and organizing, their ways of getting the readers to feel and empathize. I find that it’s very useful.

And on a related issue, you do realized that if you write academic papers like you write blogs, I’ll understand better why your professor said what he said. Because writing academic papers like writing blogs is totally not done. Or should not be done. Is it possible that your blogging have affected your academic writing style? That might be something to look into.

Also, if you feel empty of what you have wrote, could it be that you don’t feel anything of what you are watching? I’m not sure about academic papers, but for blogging, that makes a lot of difference between having a great blog post and having a well written but essentially soulless post. And for academic papers? If they are anything like writing news articles (as opposed to writing comments or blog posts), I can say that passion doesn’t count as much. There is a certain formula to writing all those stuff, and well, as soon as you catch the trick of doing them (the trick that would satisfy your professor/editor, anyway), the rest would come easily.

My opinion? Find out what your professor likes and write what he likes. You can express your individuality in blogs, but in the academics, especially when someone is grading you? Well, it’s much like work, and that is what I’m doing right now.

I’ve experienced the same thing you are, since I’ve always had inferiority complex since who knows when. In blogging terms, I compared myself with the likes of you and other bloggers and I’ve often told myself that I’m no good… but thankfully enough, my mindset has changed over the months I spent in blogging.

In times like these, I think it’s best to keep in mind that criticisms can only make you better. Other ones before me already gave their advice, and I can only add more to the “Believe in yourself” chanting.

I’m not sure if you’ve read this before, but I dedicate this post to you, Impz… may you find your true blogging voice