It's a sad day indeed when you realize that your boyfriend--who is by profession a scientist and should therefore, truth be told, have the written communication skills of a rock--is not only a great writer capable of expressing thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking ideas and emotions within a variety of diverse subjects, but that he is in fact a better, more clever, more articulate, more creative writer than you, the soon-to-be graduate with a masters in journalism.
And he has no "training."
Yeah, can someone please remind me why it was a good idea to plunge myself into debt for a graduate degree? 'Cause I'm feeling pretty darn foolish right about now...
Don't feel bad, I've been in that boat. Very similar boat, actually, the guy was studying physics.
ReplyDeleteBut you and I both know it's a very different kind of writing that you can do. Plus, hello, you created a magazine. As great as he is, D can't do that.
Having now read several examples of both your writing and Daniel's, I can say (from my minutes and minutes of experience with your writing and his) that a comparison of the 2 leads me more to the conclusion that you have very different writing styles than to the conclusion that one or the other of you is a better writer. And, for what it's worth, I am of the opinion that money spent on education is rarely, if ever, wasted. :-)
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