| New writers always worry about talent, but "talent" is | | | | newspaper article, a novel, or a company overview, |
| no indication of ability to write. If you have the desire to | | | | the next step is to find a model for it so you know |
| write, that's a fair indication that you have all the ability | | | | how that piece of writing is put together.Study the |
| you need.=> The desire to do something is the | | | | model and make an outline of it, then write.=> Pay |
| indication that you CAN do itEverything we do starts | | | | attention: make your writing funThe more fun you |
| with a desire to do it, from learning to walk, to writing. | | | | have writing, the more you will write. Dean Koontz |
| From then on, it's just a matter of having fun, and | | | | once said that if you want to write commercially, |
| practicing.When someone says "I want to write, but," | | | | writing has to be more fun for you than anything else |
| the most important part of the sentence is "I want to | | | | you could be doing.Professional writers do a lot of |
| write."=> Talent is the natural ability to do something | | | | writing which is not intrinsically fun. I write copy for |
| well, but so what?I've always said that if you can write | | | | businesses, and writing about EDI (Electronic Data |
| a letter, you can write copy (write for business). This is | | | | Exchange), water pumps for drainage systems and |
| a hundred per cent accurate. Anyone with the | | | | occupational health is fun for me because I make it fun. |
| natural-born ability to write a letter can write copy. | | | | I'm determined to enjoy it, and so I do.It's easy for me |
| However, I can't predict whether the talented one will | | | | to convince myself that a piece of writing like a |
| sit down and do it, day after day after day.WHEN IT | | | | software tutorial is fun, because at the very basic level |
| COMES TO WRITING, OR ANY CREATIVE | | | | of playing with words, it is extremely enjoyable. |
| PURSUIT, TALENT IS MEANINGLESS.It's doing it that | | | | Enjoyment is a function of paying attention.Try it |
| counts.In one of my favourite books, "Zen Mind, | | | | yourself. The next time you're doing a task you dislike, |
| Beginner's Mind", Suzuki-roshi says: "All that we should | | | | like cleaning the bathroom for example, start to pay |
| do is just do something as it comes. *Do* something!"If | | | | attention to it. Become deeply engrossed in spraying |
| you want to write, just write. Sit down with a pen and | | | | cleaner onto the bathroom mirror and wiping it off, and |
| paper, or in front of your computer, and put words on | | | | in scrubbing the shower stall. The more attention you |
| paper. Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and every writer | | | | pay, the more you will enjoy it.=> Welcome |
| who has ever lived or ever will live does just that, and | | | | critiquesWhen you write, you start out by managing |
| only that.Sit down and write. This is easier said than | | | | your inner critic. Next you need to learn how to |
| done. You need to know how to stop getting in your | | | | manage external critics, people who critique your |
| own way.=> Use your critical sense AFTER you have | | | | work.If you write professionally, you need to learn how |
| words on the pageImagine that you're an artist. You're | | | | to deal with editors, who are your primary external |
| drawing a still-life, of a bowl of fruit. You take your | | | | critics. Editors are VITAL to writers, and a good editor |
| paints, mix several colours to get the precise red of an | | | | can make you a much better writer. This is because |
| apple, and dab a brushstroke onto the canvas.You tilt | | | | an editor tells you what's not on the page.The only |
| your head onto the side. No, that's not right. You clean | | | | way to deal with an editor is to revise your work |
| your brush and start again. More mixing, another | | | | according to his instructions. You may not like it, but do |
| brushstroke. You shake your head. Still not right. You | | | | it anyway. Then go on to the next piece of |
| clean your brush ---.This process gets you nowhere. | | | | writing.Writing skill develops over time. The only way to |
| It's the same when you write. When you're writing, lay | | | | find out whether you have talent is to write. If you |
| words onto the page just as an artist paints.You can't | | | | write persistently for a few years, you will discover |
| know what the result will be until you've finished putting | | | | that you have talent. Your talent grew when you |
| words onto the page. This means that you need to | | | | weren't looking. Write.Stuck in your writing career? Get |
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| your inner critic.=> Pre-write, and find writing | | | | writer, published by major publishers worldwide, Angela |
| modelsWriting is about models, and about structure. If | | | | is also an experienced writing teacher, who knows |
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