I was reading my old stuff today – stuff I wrote before law school happened.
It’s so different.
Well the one thing that’s improved is that I think through my theories more carefully now and am more coherent with moral theories blahblah. Not that I really need that to write what I’m writing.
But the poetickish lilt I used to have is gone. Everything is shorter, sharper, cleaner.
Where’s the grandiose verbosity gone to!!!
As is is not beautiful or poetic or evocative at all!
I also lost my ability to use complex chronology coherently. Really quite pissed about that.
It feels horrible when you realise you don’t know how to write the way you did in Sec 3. Though it does make me realise precisely what I was doing unconsciously back then – and why I got an A for stuff that I thought everyone could do (well i was wrong, i can’t do it anymore; so that excludes me from everyone grsh I’m not making sense anymore.)
Now I instinctively break things up into headings and subheadings and CRuPAC. And it’s not as if I do it well. Kill me, somebody.
Bah. The nefarious ways in which a law education affects your personal life.
I am going to get back my old writing style this coming hols. GRRRRR. Bring on the self-indoctrination.