A note on my personality/curiosity, since a child, I’d take apart toys, electronics, mechanical things to see how and why they work. Later on, I’d do the same thing with website codes and some programming. So for me, trying to figure out things is a huge part of the “fun”. I internalize, understand and own it a lot better. It’s a lot more taxing, slow and frustrating process but it’s also feels more rewarding to me. And I guess that’s the “fun” motivation for me.
Deconstructing writing has been a lot of my work and focus of reverse engineering. Writing is definitely a more subjective less quantifiable product but I think that’s the part that makes it even more interesting. It’s not quantifiable but it definitely is qualitative. And I believe there are essential writing principles that do make up good and sound writing. But as I’ve embarked on this curiosity of backward engineering, I’ve embraced the subjectivity and discovered the importance of these questions as a writer, what is writing to me, how is it personal, what kind of writing is trying to come out of me, how does who I am contextualize what I write?