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Daylight Reveries 2.0 - by Michael Huang

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I have not written lately, mostly because I have not found the energy to. Writing is hard for me. Finding the right words and the right way to say things is hard for me. I would often write a sentence, then read it to myself in my head, trying to feel it out. Does it feel natural? rushed? And does the logic flow? Does the semantics match the vibe? A good sentence is born out of a synergy of several things—the pacing, the punctuation, the wording, and the sequence in which those words are strung together. Unfortunately, I do not yet have a natural feel of the English language. So I cannot get those elements right without taking my time to mull over each word. That, naturally, takes a lot of time and is a barrier for me to get words out. That’s the reason I stopped writing. But, since I am writing this, there has obviously been a change of heart. To know why, you have to understand that I like to generalize things. I like to generalize things. I like to derive general frameworks of how t

I have not written lately, mostly because I have not found the energy to. Writing is hard for me. Finding the right words and the right way to say things is hard for me. I would often write a sentence, then read it to myself in my head, trying to feel it out. Does it feel natural? rushed? And does the logic flow? Does the semantics match the vibe? A good sentence is born out of a synergy of several things—the pacing, the punctuation, the wording, and the sequence in which those words are strung together. Unfortunately, I do not yet have a natural feel of the English language. So I cannot get…

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