why should i?!?

I have just finished A. N. Wilson’s “Iris Murdoch as I knew her”, and I have written down several pages of unfamiliar words, would-like-to-refresh words, beautiful words. I have even looked some of them up in a dictionary and browsed through them a couple of times to revise.

Best-selling authors (like Dan Brown) write in simple English. I believe that nowadays the simpler the language, the better chances for the text to become a best-seller – more people will be able to read it and enjoy it in a fast and effortless way – the way they watch soap-like stuff on TV.

Then isn’t trying to master high English a waste?

I love beautiful difficult English (not Mobile Dick’s, of course!).

I would feel cool to be better at it. It will make me feel as important as someone who can change gear the classic way and does it in automatic America.

I would be happy if more people felt cool about studying it and using it. It will give them access to ideas and nuances of ideas, which would otherwise be inaccessible to them.

Look forward to my next entry, which might read like “Why should I have access to all ideas?”

I want to be read by more people and earn money through writing. Here is why I would like to write in English. The problem is I don’t believe my English is very good. I often think that I should be able to write in a really sophisticated fresh-slang English in order to be a best-selling author.

Why should I?

Isn’t it more important to have something to say than to have nothing to say but be able to say it in high English?

Whenever I tell my son that he should practice his drawing skills, he says “But I do not have my own ideas for pictures.” Well, I do . I have a message to the planet .

Do Iris Murdoch’s fans love reading her books because she writes in not-so-easy-to-read-fast English, or do they like her because she has something to say?

So, I am in! I am a writer. Don’t miss my next entry, which should read something like “Why should I learn how to write like Iris Murdoch?”