the relationship between writing and speaking

  Both writing and speaking are a way of delivering your thought.

  For me, speaking makes me feel more comfortable than writing does. I think it's because speaking is our daily lives' task. Especially in my case, my characteristic is rather outgoing, so I have few problems when I speak. However, when it comes to writing, it is more difficult because I don't have as much chance to write as to speak. Furthermore, I can't use either of my facial expressions or body language to convince my readers when I write!(Well for nowadays, people use lots of emoticons to show their facial expression on internet when they write. However, for formal writings, we can't benefit from using them!)

  I don't try to write the way I speak. In fact, I try not to write in the way I speak. If I record me speaking and then dictate it, it would look so bad and there would be too much mistakes to read without difficulty! Fortunately, I can look up for some words that I am not familiar with when I am writing. My sentences tend to become more complicated and sound better than I speak.

  Basically, as I wrote at the top of the page, both speaking and writing are a good way to express your thoughts and feelings. As they are both means to convey your opinions, there can't be a huge or significant difference between them. However, there exists some subtle differences, and I feel more comfortable with speaking than writing for some that subtle differences. Maybe I have some sort of fear in writing unconsciously. :(