AS I WRITE

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To write is not an easy task, you have to live to write and have a language to write in.  Well, we all have a mother tongue to communicate in, however, society teaches and we follow - there are other tongues. Creative writing is loose in structure and all of us experiment as our need for communication grows.  Academic writing needs structure, and the necessary environment to learn through observation and instruction.
I started to write in the Greek alphabet, in elementary school I experimented with verse.  We returned to Bulgaria a few years later and I had to learn to write all over again. A different alphabet, punctuation, values, and points of view. The Cyrillic alphabet originates from the Greek, so it is a natural progression. But as a child one is awed by it all, surprised by the novelty.
Several years on, my writing again came to a standstill as I continued my education in English, a Germanic language rooted in Latin, very different to the alphabet I was used to.  It took a year or two to develop a language to communicate in. So then, I was given the chance to write a few essays. I lived happily writing in both Bulgarian and American English, when I was faced with an entire new way to communicate: British English.  A sea of idioms, phrasal verbs, and complex grammatical structures, or maybe just a fusion of everything I had learned so far.
Eventually this lead me to explore publishing and hone my English writing skills. I'd reached a peak I'd never written better creatively or academically.  Thanks to all the creative people I came to know, and the rise of the PC.
One of these people became my husband, who spoke very little English with a strong German accent. I brushed up not my German but Spanish, and we found a universal language. One forgets the old and easily opens up to the new. I hungrily started to learn Castellano.  What a beautiful balance it provides for Bulgarian and English, it helped me to be objective about these two languages I had relied on over the years.
I have not learned to write in Castellano yet, only very basic texts, but it has helped so much to be confident in teaching living language, and how it develops.  To write you need structure and a language, to an extent you can achieve this by reading.  Literature leads you in, but you know you have to live the language. 
I've added a link to some tools that teach you to write academically and enrich your vocabulary, I still don't know how to do this subtly.  Hopefully it'll come together.  You do need these to an extent, but what is really needed is life experience.

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