Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Anyone who has tried writing a book at some point or other would agree how difficult it can get going on it. Though we have lots of ideas and we discuss them with people, when it comes to write them down on a computer or a typewriter, words do not come easily. The page sits there as if mocking us, daring us to mar it and fill with words. What is it in the process of writing which makes us so blank? Most of the time its nothing but not knowing where to start and finish.
What takes the paradox further are the writers that flood the market in an attempt to teach others how to write a book. However, the fact is that the writer probably has never written a book in true sense on any other topic. The writer would usually tell us how to write books, or give seminars and workshops. They’ll tell us about proper diction and about how to make sure the characters run the story, or how the story runs the characters. They’ll fill our heads with plot lines and character arcs, and never get to the part we need to know the most - how to recognize the story?
The Basic structure of all the stories is common. It would have a beginning, middle and end. All the elements must be in order to make it complete and believable. The nucleus of the book is its plot that you must think about. Other questions are equally important. Who is the lead character? What events start the story? What ends it? If you don’t have the answers to these questions, it’s time you go back to research and know all the answers beforehand.
When you ask well known authors how to write books, they invariably answer the same way: you need to write a lot and you need to read a lot. When you spend your spare time reading the type of books you’d like to write, you learn how to construct a story line. It doesn’t matter what your favorite type of book is, either. Reading Dumas and Voltaire may help with your cultural education, but it won’t help you to write bodice rippers. If you want to write for Harlequin, you need to read their books. If you want to write horror, choose an author who sells quite a bit. Don’t imitate that author’s voice, but pay attention to how he or she uses the language to express thoughts and feelings.
Books are great fun to write. No matter whether they come in paperback, hardbound, leather bound, or in the form of ebook without paper or ink, they form the very basis of a solid educational background. Books are the kind of heirloom that passes not only knowledge but also a sense of the way life was at the time it was written. Listen to your inner voice and make all efforts to write what you have within you. Who knows, maybe you will be the one to pen down the classic that would get passed down from generation to generation.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt…” Sylvia Plath
Like any other art form writing is also a form of art through which someone expresses his or hers feelings that born in mind space. It’s an art which deals with the mood, passions and lust which together lead a person to create beautiful imageries through words. On the other hand it’s an author’s outbound emotional expression that flows like a stream from within. It’s a journey full of factual elements or imaginative ingredients that creates beauty in words. More or less it’s a kind of discovery of someone’s own self with words. American writer Richard Wright said “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
So to discover someone’s own self how one can proceed or in simplest meaning how the art of writing can be achieved, acquired or learnt. What are the important factors to be learnt to become a good writer? According to Robert Louis Stevenson there are four elements regarding this. They are choice of words, web, rhythm of phrase and contents of phrase. Since writing means expressions through words, so what matters most is the use of words in writing. Use of good mellifluous words makes a good article. Expressions of the writer become expressive only through the good use of words. An artist’s emotions expressed through colors and a composer’s through sweet notes. Likewise a writer’s expressions lie on words.
Web is none other than the style. Distinct style signifies the elegance of a writer and his merit. The style of the expressions of a writer is the taste of the writing. And that gives the significance and the distinctive outlook of the writings. It defines the school of his thoughts. The construction of sentences, use of words and the narrative style and translation of the inner voice always reflected in the writing and that is its credibility. And thus it metamorphoses into the art of good writing.
A good article means harmony of words and thoughts of a writer. Only a good harmony between words and thoughts can bring the taste and beauty of an article. Stronger the words, greater the aesthetics of the art and the art of writing. The art becomes stronger when the thoughts of a writer enriched with good words and phrases. A good write up means a sweet melody.
The nucleus of a good writing is the style. The flow of the words the rhythm of the words and the way it is expressed give any article its excellence and elegance. The architectural beauty of an article is always measured by the dexterity of a writer’s translation of moods, imagination, thoughts and expressive style of the writer. “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” as George Orwell opined would be enough to acquire the art of writing.
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