“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: Read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”
I have nothing to say more. Fortunately, I love to read and I would love to write. So I just could enjoy it. But, I try to read a lot more. To achieve this, one thing I do is keep the record about what I read. As for writing, I am trying to write this blog, 500 words for a post.
“I suggest a thousand words a day, and because I’m feeling magnanimous, I’ll also suggest that you can take one day a week off, at least to begin with. No more; you’ll lose the urgency and immediacy of you story if you do.”
This suggestion would help a lot of writers. I am writing 1000 words. I am just writing something not story just for me. I think it is important to build the habit of writing at first, and then I will care more about quality of writing.
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”
So then, good description is learned skill. For now, I could just enjoy writing and reading. But, one thing I have to promise is, even though I feel I have nothing to write and I am afraid of making mistake, I will keep write. I will read a lot, write a lot and never stop writing. I don’t know but I think I can because I am enjoying writing.
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing.”
I understand this. When I was writing paper, I could not write well if I don’t have clear picture of physics. We have to have clear ideas what to write and then you have to figure out how we can explain it to readers. If we are excited what to say, we would care how we can make people understand.
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, O.K.? Getting happy.”
Remember. Why are you writing? I am writing for fun and for me.
Some of this book – perhaps too much – has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it – and perhaps the best of it – is ha permission slip; you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
If writing is hobby, that is good, you don’t spend money on that. I will drink as much as I can!!