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Question:Do you suppose I lost my skill?

Is it because I may have matured a little bit?

Or could it be that I am just not as passionate as I used to be...

I'm not sure... it baffles me... I used to be a much better writer... more passionate in general -- Ever since I started working and got into the "real world" my writing abilities have been declining...

Maybe I was just a stupid kid that thought he was good.

What do you think?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Do you suppose I lost my skill?

Is it because I may have matured a little bit?

Or could it be that I am just not as passionate as I used to be...

I'm not sure... it baffles me... I used to be a much better writer... more passionate in general -- Ever since I started working and got into the "real world" my writing abilities have been declining...

Maybe I was just a stupid kid that thought he was good.

What do you think?

I think maybe it was because when you were younger you were more carefree, had less boundaries, and more imagination. The stress from working and the new point of view you've adopted as an adult could have caused it. Try this: when you write, forget all the stupid rules, open your imagination, and just write. Forget about anyone or anything else.

It could also be that now that you're older you're more critical about what you write, and it's not at all that you're loosing your ability, but actually that you're just raising your standards.

I hear you brother!

I wrote a novel in my twenties--unpublished, before you ask--and now can't hold the concentration (or passion) to finish a short story.

I don't know where it goes, why we let the world take these things away from us. Desperately I wish you, I and everyone else would rise-up and fight for our passion, but if it is gone, perhaps it--or we--were just not strong enough. Then again, maybe it'll come back if we just keep whining about it, eh?

I'm reminded of a Bruce Springsteen lyric:

In the end what you don't surrender
Well the world it just strips away.

Let's do our best to not let that happen, find it again, somewhere, somewhere in our dwindling hearts.

Maybe you feel more self-conscious than when you were younger or maybe you felt more romantic back then. Love notes are always something that makes you feel good but expressing love through actions and thoughtfulness are more effective for me.

It is an interesting question, and one I relate to.

I hear Missy Higgins say of her first album that it was special in that she had never had the experience of hearing her music everywhere, so she wrote from a more personal place than any of her later writing could ever be.

Maybe it is something like that, the older you get, and the more your heart gets hurt, the less you allow yourself to commit to paper the truth of your emotion with such innocence and earnest, lest you be injured once more.

As we get older we become more cynical, and less innocent.

Wow, I think Darkly said it all <3

You know, it's there somewhere, just relax and it'll come back when you least expect it @)~>~