Writing

This is from one of my teaching books. In learning how to teach writing it seems that my own lack of writing skills is being magnified and my own motivation for writing has been on the decline lately. I thought that maybe it was just that I had nothing to say until I discovered this quote, which then made me reconsider the reasoning behind my creative decline.  


“The way you select words and organize them into whole compositions depends on the way you see human experience. If you literally do not see anything, you will of course have nothing to say....Everything here aims at the expression of meaning in the most effective possible way, and this “meaning,” this result of observation, must always include the PARTICULAR, the SPECIFIC, the DETAIL.” pg. 9, Stop, Look, and Write,  by Hart Day Leavitt and David A. Sohn