Writing Practice

In order to practice writing, I'm going to start a habit of writing. I encourage everyone who may be following this blog to un-follow the blog so as not to be overwhelmed with the trivialities of my wandering mind. 

William Zinsser's, in his book, "On Writing Well", he talked about unity. The first three elements of unity that he suggested, and on which he expounded, are person, tense, and mood.  Person is the point of view that one chooses for the article or piece. First person, participant, is how I am this article for example, but I could have chosen also to write it in the third person as an observer.  I could also have chosen to write in the second person, but I'm not a fan of that style.  Tense is the temporal point of view that one has to choose.  As he suggested, I have to decide where in time I'm primarily going to place the reader.  Am I going to be in the moment, as I am right now, or write in the past tense, as if telling a story about what happened? He pointed out that one can change tense where appropriate, but it should be relative to the time.  For example, I just asked a question about how I would choose to write in the future, but from the current point of view, "am I going to be"  I then went on to talk about how Zinsser, "suggested" and "pointed out".  I'm not sure if he would agree that that is appropriate.  The third element is mood.  I am writing in what I would consider an informal mood telling you about my experience.  I suppose if I were writing in the third person I would probably choose to be more formal. The concept of mood is probably going to be the toughest for me to control. With that in mind, I'm going to switch tasks and write some other thoughts unrelated to writing, so I'll do that in a different article.