March 23, 2007 19:58
Category: How To Write
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How to be a writer? Help yourself. When you ran the first time as a toddler, who helped? Yourself. Don't you ever sing? Many like me sing only in private (you know where). But sing we do. Who helps? None but we ourselves.
Similarly, you have to write to become a writer. You have to start writing and continue writing in order to become a writer. So next time when you face the question 'how to be a writer', you know the answer. Which is 'get started writing'.
This brings me to my son's learning cycling. When Arka wanted a bicycle, he was all of 5 years. I was afraid he might hurt himself, particularly since he had vision problem. He was least concerned and didn't wait for my consent.
When I was off to works, Arka would borrow our neighbor's son's bicycle and learn to ride all by himself. Nobody helped him but he kept at it. Every morning, each evening. Till one day he found it convenient to let me know what he achieved.
The moral therefore is to keep doing what you want to do. Unless you do and keep doing, you are not doing it. Sounds confusing? But it's not. To become a writer the first necessity is to write and keep writing.
If you feel stuck, it may only be a small personality problem. In such cases, a book such as this one on how to be a writer may help.
If you are bogged down by the notion that you need to be published to be known as a writer, you are not alone. If not immediate monetary gain, getting published does fetch some recognition and validation to you as a writer.
How to get published? The web offers many opportunities. Participate in blogs, forums. Submit articles to directories. Remain anonymous if you so desire, getting to know meanwhile how good you are at writing. Do all that you think you must to uncover the puzzle 'how to be a writer'.
How to be a writer - some how to guides
At Words2content, our job is to write for you. Even as we do that, we often come across questioners who want straight answers to typical queries like 'how to write poem', 'how to write summary', 'how to write a story' and so on.
Well, we do not write everything for a living. Not yet. For example, we are not speechwriters or storytellers. It's not that we'd lack motivation to do these jobs. But since we believe in maintaining a focus, we feel writing speeches or stories may not conform to central theme of this website.
Be that as it may, we want to say we owe it to our occasional questioners (who incidentally are our esteemed visitors too) that we write some helpful how-to guides to get them going. So here they are (in time we'll add more):
- How to write summary
- How to write outline
- What Is Persuasive Writing?
