How to Become a Writer Writing

Submitted by Team e-author on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 3:38 pm.
Written by: Judy Reeves

Gertrude Stein wrote, "Writing is writing is writing is writing is writing is writing is writing." (He also wrote, "The Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"). It does not mean what he said is that the writing is so matter of writing, from beginning to end. That writing is writing. Just write. How to start writing? Writing. How to be able to continue to write? Yes, keep writing.

Unfortunately, many of us who think it's not as simple as it seems. We have trouble going to start writing, we are troubled to be able to continue to write, and often times we give up so easily, enthusiasm and tenacity we gradually disappear, like a river that dries up.

However, because the writing is in the heart, soul, and our DNA, after a few weeks or months or even years, we re excited to write. Even more vigorous than ever, and by then, we can maintain the spirit of writing it.

Maybe we like it or maybe not. From my experience as a teacher, many people who often can not maintain his spirits. For some, the cycle of the spirit to write like the above occur repeatedly. Because we are not consistent, we begin to judge ourselves as people who have no talent to write, we take pride thrown together sheets of paper that we throw into the trash, and then we can begin the more difficult to write. It makes the heart sick. Because we are writers, and when we do not complete - when there are parts missing in ourselves - we can never feel comfortable in the world, there is no peace within himself. Writing is our life. It was not my whole life, but it is enough to make us feel incomplete when not writing.

CLAIM YOURSELF AS A WRITER
You will never be a writer (and continues to write) until you call yourself a writer.
Most writers I know, especially those not published his work, saying, "I want to be a writer." Or, "I was ... I love to write." Or, "I've always wanted to be a writer." However, they do not refer to themselves as writers. Think of other words to describe yourself: man / woman, mother / father, wife / husband, friends, teachers, technicians, masseuse, a lawyer, a gardener, a cook. We use these words to introduce ourselves, either to others or to ourselves. What do you call us to ourselves, that's us. In some cultures, the new name given when someone is changing. The new name suggests that this man has changed. If you call yourself a writer, not just saying you want to be like what you going to change. Try it. Now. Shout your name loudly and followed the words, "I am a writer." Allow yourself to experience the sensations you feel when you do it. "But no one has published my writing," you might say that, as if that's what gives you the right to call yourself a writer. After all, when you tell others that you are a writer, surely they will ask, "Oh, writing what ever you published?"

Listen, the published writings have nothing to do with being a writer! Publications related to making money as a writer. Perhaps also with public recognition and kemashyuran. While it is true, most published writers do not get too much money or fame. We might say, is published is published published. In fact, published is the goal most of us. However, that is no reason for us to write. We write because that's what we should do. Anne Sexton said, "When I write, I'm doing things I should do."

Moreover, once we published writings, not that it makes us stop writing. We will continue to write. That's what writers do. I have a vision like that when I write, I write and keep writing. Like the old joke says, "The old writer never die, they continue to improve the final part of his writing."

How can you claim yourself as a writer?
First, saying, "I am a writer." Say it out loud. Say to yourself in the mirror. Tell your family and friends. Tell the people you meet at a party who asks, "What do you do?" Tell a stranger while you wait in line at the grocery store. Tell your mother. Tell most often to yourself, "I am a writer."

Choose one place to write, a sacred place where you feel comfortable, rather than feeling burdened. If you do not already have a space like that, then create it. Use a room full or part of the room as a place of your writing. Before creating the space he wrote, my friend Wendy uses baffles to separate the living room where he writes. When you're in your own room to write, send and candles or lights, or flowers, anything that can make your room unique. Make it as comfortable as possible.

Take the tools you need. Appreciate your writing with a paper or do you prefer. Buy high quality pens that you've always dreamed dream. Buy a computer that is only for your own good and the printing machine. Prepare a dictionary, thesaurus dictionary, and books EYD quality. Find quality books and journals to write subscribe.

Mingling with other writers. Interact with them. Surati an author whose book you admire (not as a fan, but as a fellow writer). Follow seminars and workshops. Join a writing group.

Reading as a writer. Learn from the best. Learn your favorite writer, and copy some of his writings to be able to feel the rhythm and style of writing. Divide sentences, paragraphs, and chapters in writing to discover secret techniques and writing. In addition to writing, reading good writing will become your best teacher.

Set Time for Writing
The second thing you need to do to become a writer who writes is to make time to write. You will never write if you do not make time to write. Never say, "I will soon write." You would never write that way. During the 25 years before this writing, I'm the one who always say like that, and therefore I could never start writing. That does not happen again after I set the time to write on a regular basis so I can be an author who writes.

Set the time to write, write on your calendar: Monday 14:00; Tuesday, 15/09, Wednesday ...; and so on.

Find a time that suits you. Do not set the time to write for two hours if you just settle for half an hour. Do not set the alarm at 5:30 in the morning if you're really hard to get up early and do not like in the morning. Similarly, do not tell me you'll write at night after all the work you are wrong if at the time you usually lie on the couch and can not yawn. Find a time that support. Take a half-time from your lunch hour. Write directly after work. Get up a half hour early. If you have the freedom to manage your time, set the time to write during work hours.

Students in my class said that they did not have time to write. And then I asked them who regularly watch TV and play the Internet to raise their hands. Many raised their hands. I asked again, "Then who do not have time to write?" All respond with a grimace. Write instead of watching TV, playing internet, read newspapers, play with friends. You have to sacrifice some of your time to write.

Note: Do not sacrifice the time to stroll and watch the sun sets.

You may have heard that if you want to be author, you must write every day.
It's not set in stone. But there are some rules that must be done to be a writer. To be a writer (ie writer who writes), you must write several times a week - at least four or five times, much better if every day. Writing will be easier to write regularly. You will be better when you do something with frequently. Mic Jagger said, "You have to sing every day so that could be, yes ..., a great singer."

As with any exercise, dieting, or lectures, written exercises sometimes will be more easily done with the friend. Make an appointment with friends to write. If you and your friends can not write together in one place, each call or send us an e-mail and said, "I write today" or "I'll write at 20:30 o'clock tonight" or "How did the writing today?".

Do not wait for inspiration to come to your new writing. Futile. When you appear in front of your paper, inspiration will come to you. There is a saying, "Writing is 20 percent inspiration and 80 percent perspiration." After all, if writing is your daily exercise, you do not need inspiration to start writing.

Write
Finally, the third step to becoming a writer who wrote the course of writing itself. Talking about writing is not writing. Thinking about writing is not writing. Dreaming or imagining it, not writing. Creating a framework, examine, and make notes nor write. All it likely is part of the writing and required to write, but wrote that it writes.

"You can not sit back and think," said David Long fiction writer, "you should sit down and write."

So every day, at a predetermined (or are not fixed in advance / spontaneous), sit at your desk (or at a cafe table or on the grass in the park), then write.

Do it every day and I guarantee you, you will continue to run out of writing paper, you will start and finish a lot of stories, essays, narrative nonfiction - whatever you want to write. Your imagination will go anywhere and craze. You will become an author who writes. (T / Dian)

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