Fighting Ghost

"How am I supposed to win when they've got me fighting ghost", that's the thought I have each time I put a pen to paper or touch these keys. Its seem as though all references made to truly exceptional writing is connected to dead people. It eventually leads me to believe that any piece of work I write is gauged with those "ghost" in mind. I personally am one who believes in creating your unbeaten lane because it helps you to avoid the critiques and comparisons to those from the past. I respect the work of all the notable "ghost" but I feel some people doubts in their own abilities sometimes comes from the over emphasis or past writers and not the current.

As a student whose experienced everything from English composition to journalism I've found that on the college level there's a large tendency of professors to use past writing as a ways of grading current work. In many schools there are whole courses dedicated to the likes of Shakespeare. There's also whole Journalism courses dedicated to teaching students the "right" way to deliver and write and article. This is frustrating because there's no doubt in my mind that the "right" way was made in the mold of a "ghost's" writing. I believe at some point a time needs to come where the living banish the ghost to a certain extent and allow for their legacy to begin and be recognized.

Personally I would love to create a legacy of my own and become a "ghost" in my own respect, but I'd want to do it in a way that is recognized at given times and more so used as motivation for those in the future to create their own unbeaten path just as I'm striving to do.