Free Learning e-Course :Want to become a Writer?(Part s 1 to 3)
Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
by Ramaswamy Sundaram
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Chapter I : Basics
Writers are not born
Yes – be sure You can become a writer 100%. When the writing legend, Shakespeare, or for that matter Mark Twain, or the so called Millionaire-writers online were born, they were born as ordinary child like you and me. No people in the neighborhood came rushing to their home and took up the child above their head, yelling “Ha..here comes Shakespeare the doyen of English Literature."
Writing is a SKILL any one can develop. There is no bar – gender; age; genre; country; region; caste; creed; language; highest education (a myth many are believing needed for writers) or anything whatsoever. Nobody can say only Americans can write – Africans or Asians should not. If you are able to read and write – enough - You can become a Writer. The one and only requirement is INCLINATION! Nothing else, Trust me. Writing is just nothing but expressing your thoughts into words – that’s all.
Have you ever thought of becoming a writer? I am sure many have, but backed up assuming (just assuming but not really) there are many defects in them, preventing them from being a writer. My friend - if you can think and convey your thoughts to others by speech, by body language or signs (if you can’t speak), through letters or emails, there is no reason why you can not be a Writer.
So first of all shed your complexes – I can not write Good English (who cares? – tell you a secret - 89.78% of people have an English knowledge of a 12 th standard boy); Grammar mistakes come (luckily you have every computer in-built to correct your grammar - including that of yourstruly); I can not write cogently (can be corrected by practice); and so on.
We will see next why you should become a writer and what is to be done.
Get the right mindset:
You can invent any number of lame excuses not to try and become a writer. The mind-set should be changed first into a positive one. The Power of Positive Mind has been explained time and again by psychological experts, right from Sigmund Freud – You Become What You Think You Are.
Your sub-conscious mind does all the tricks. If you think – I am happy; I am energetic; I have all the qualifications to become a popular writer (repeatedly every day) your sub-conscious mind starts to believe it. When you are asleep, it begins the work like magic and sets your brain attuned to this thinking. Result is you become interested in becoming a writer and go on looking forward to find ways and means, how to achieve your goal. This is what is called INCLINATION.
You can talk to your sub-conscious mind by a proven technique known as “Alpha Mind Power". A whole book can be written on this subject and I will come to this later. For the time being, suffice it to say that you can convert your mind into a positive mind. You ask yourself these questions – Why I can not be a writer? What is preventing me?
Your mind will adduce reason after reason in the negative way. You are not alone in this and you have company of 92% of people like you. The majority count is “I have no time". There can never be a lousy reason like this. Supposing somebody is going to give you $100,000 this evening exactly at 6 pm – won’t you be there at 5.55 pm sharp?
What about your other preoccupations? How did you find time to go all the way, get the money and return back home? So everything is possible, if only you have the right mind set. Time Management is another big subject worth a volume of writing. What you should know here is - if there is will there is way. If you consider becoming a writer most important for you, your mind will automatically tell you hundred and one ways of finding time in your daily schedule, however tight it is.
We will see what are the ways of visualization and how it enormously helps in your becoming a Writer.
Visualization:
We learnt that to become a writer, you must have INCLINATION and the positive mind- set. We were talking about Visualization. What is it? This is directing your mind to work one way with a single focus. Whatever you want to become, can be achieved by Visualization. If you want to become a Writer, think of that whatever will happen to you as a Writer, in future.
Imagine - You have become a Writer. Family people, relatives and friends look upon you with awe. Your wife (or husband) goes on bragging that you are a Writer. People form an image about you as a Writer - a cut above the ordinary class. Whenever you meet them, you find something new in their eyes – an admiration – which was not there earlier. You write online. You write ebooks. You write web content. You write sales copy. You write Reviews; You write so many other things including stories, novels, science fiction and so on.
Imagine - You become a popular writer as J.K. Rowling. You earn a six figure income. You spend freely as you like and enjoy all the luxuries you have been longing for.
Believe me if you start Visualization as above, very frequently on a daily basis, it will become an obsession for you to become a Writer. This is the craving called INCLINATION, much needed for putting forth physical efforts, towards achieving your goal – You Become a Writer.
Without anybody telling you, you will start searching for ways and means to become a writer. If you have determination in your achieving the goal, you will not mind whatever comes between you and your ultimate goal. This obsession, this craving, this INCLINATION, will drive you day in and day out to become a Writer. Positive.
It is here you should understand what is PASSION. If you have passion for anything, say watching TV serials, or an action movie, or chatting with friends, can anything stop you from doing that? How much of interest you show in your passionate pastime? And how much you get irritated and impatient, if something comes between you and your passionate pastime? How you overcome all these obstacles and problems standing in the way and smash them in a snap to enjoy your passionate pastime?
This is exactly the power of PASSION. Anything you do with a passion – gardening; physical exercises; playing Bingo Games online; watching TV - will never get you tired, irrespective of the difficulties or long hours involved.
Likewise, if you engage yourself in Writing, it will become a PASSION for you. We will see more on this passionate writing pleasure.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Sentence fragments, verb tense errors and grammatical errors abound; stilted sentences like;"Why I can not be a writer?",show that the article medium itself contradicts the message of expert writng.Thank you Paul. I am an Indian and senior citizen sharing my experience with others as a freelance writer. I want to talk to my readers one to one and so I prefer it this way - everyday conversation style. Are you talking to others in a school-syllabus grammatical way?. I respect your scholarly knowledge as a writer, but forgive me this is a honest effort to encourage others to learn the writing skill, which they have been longing to acquire. Expert or ordinary. Thanks again.
The imagination of a writer and the skill of writing are two different things. Yes, anyone can be a writer, in a sense, but do they possess proper word usage or sentence structure? If not, all the imagination in the world will not make their writing acceptable to the masses. Their subject matter may be interesting, but will not attract much attention if grammar, sentence structure and spelling are poor. Writing is more than ideas and imagination, it is a skill and technique which must be learned. It comes from the heart, but also from the classroom.
Thank you Mr. David. Yes you are right 100% in saying imagination and writing skills are different. But I hope you wont deny that the above two are in separably linked together. If you do not have imagination, you will have nothing to write about. If you don't have the writing skill - grammar, sentence formation, right words at the right place etc. you can not convincingly express your imagination into words. I agree with you totally. But you see this is an effort to lead people by their hands, not by a rigid class room style, but a friendly advice, into the skills of writing. I am sure you will bless me in this effort and spread the word to your followers that here is a free opportunity to learn to become a writer. Thanks a million. Regards - Sundaram
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