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when i write, i obsess. i first type one draft in word, spellcheck, grammar check, stuff like that. i don’t like it when one paragraph is three times as big as another. well i’m saying right now, screw that crap and i’m done. grammar and spelling are good for grades, for school papers and letters and wanting to impress people and wanting to look smart. right now i could care less if i spill thiz wurd rite or use, the right amount, of commas. or periods in each sentence. when i write to express myself, i don’t want to think about subordinate clauses. i think about the messages i am trying to convery. if i don’t feel like capitlizing my i’s, so i won’t. simple as that. sorry to all the english teacher’s who’ve taught me that practice makes perfect, but i think i know my grammar well enough to want to use it when i feel like it. i have a good memory. i won’t forget. but i will forget what i meant to write next if i spend an hour fixing up one lousy paragraph. that much I know.