The Green Pen of Envy

Anyone who likes to write, anyone who likes to read, or anyone who's naturally competitive will probably identity with this. Have you ever read something, and just felt like it expressed something that could have come out of your mouth? (or pen, or keyboard, or theoretically, if you lived before the last 20th century, keyboard) Then you feel as if they stole it, and that idea, which you realized was complete and total gold as you wre reading it as expressed by them, is now lost from you as far as new writing goes.

Also, I get the Green Pen of Envy, as we may call it, when I look at the writing style of people I really admire. I suppose that people like my writing (at least they keep telling me that) so there must be something stylistically good about it, but I've usually seen it so many times before I hand it in that I come to see my own style as boring and monotonous. I'm not going to get into the whole deal about being yourself trough writing.

My eyes are literally closing of their own accord at this point. Sleep isn't calling anymore, it borrowed an airhorn.

Peace. Love. Happiness.
~Cody