Graphics taken from this New York Times article.

I read about this in one of our company's manual. It said reports should not contain motherhood and apple pie statements.

I looked it up as usual in Google, and voila! It's describing how I write. It's about writing emotional stuffs in a very simplified manner, claiming it as if it's my own when the fact is it's everyone else's truth.

For example, I kept saying how we are our parents when the fact is we really are our parents. Whoever isn't is either lying or in denial. (And I realized just now how lonely it would have been to not be able to say that we are our parents. Which reminded me of the movie Hook -- the one which starred Robin Williams as Peter Pan -- where her daughter commented of Hook's evil schemes as "he's just a boy who misses his mommy". Sad and true. The evils in this world have not known the love of a mother -- and/or a father (am not saying this just because it's June 19 today). And once again, I'm writing in a motherhood and apple pie style.

There's nothing wrong in my style, is there? Not being able to write straight-forwardly but rather in a style that's bereft of technical-ic terms is the only I know on how to convey whatever's in my mind. What's in my mind are thousands of gray-ish ideas that are either diluted by too much caffeine or fogged by cigarette smoke. Again, I'm going nowhere.

There's something I learned from self-reading on writing styles -- conquering the police in my mind. Those are the thoughts that constantly nag us while in the middle of writing. It's that silent but constantly nagging voice saying -- while my eyes are squinted in front of the computer monitor unmindful of what's going around me because I'm immersed with whatever I'm writing about -- 'stop it Nelson because you're writing trashhhh', er, motherhood and apple pie statements!

Happy father's day to all the fathers in the blogosphere.