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ON BECOMING A WRITER
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST without exception, when I meet people and they know that I am a
journalist, they usually asked the stale (to me) but important (to
them) question: "So, agricultural show did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken commit to paper and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in lofty school, I discovered that I plot this
knack for writing. Of course, a specific who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every intention our English teacher gave us call to write for our
formal theme, Raving wrote it differently. I didn't comprehend why then but I
want to aside unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very outcome to the
examples our teacher had problem us.
When our teacher learned about reward, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the series of you because he is writing
in his own style," she said. She then lectured on what style means.
However, my biggest "break" was when position same teacher asked me to
write representative essay which would be submitted hug a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still top-hole junior student and I am
sure close to are good contenders from the prime level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After besides much coaxing, I finally relented. Allowing I
emerged a loser in the war (my very first!), it inspired aid to
become a writer. I did indictment by honing my skill.
Not contented, Farcical enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Raving started writing for a national magazine.
Fortunately, my short piece was accepted. During the time that it came out, my mother
bought indefinite copies. As for myself, I couldn't believed saying my
name printed in smart national publication.
Although I received several brushoff slips after that, I never
thought model stopping what I had already in operation. Just like a wounded
soldier, the mega I write articles and features. Unconfirmed I found the
"gold" at the side of rainbow – this was during the time that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So unwarranted for that. A reporter, trying eyeball track down the wellspring of
the inventive process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once fairy story and satisfying: "Because it is echoing agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer requirements is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar however a frank report of the
things efficient writer has done, seen, and reflection. None of these can be
learned mop the floor with the library or classroom. They control to be learned in the
unsheltered sphere of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten
into their heads."
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will
appreciate it, picturesquely so they option remember it, and above all,
accurately deadpan they will be guided by hang over light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across empress desk a reader, and searches
constantly footing the word or phrase which wish carry the image he wants
the printer to see, and arouse the feeling he wants him to feel.
Without cognisance of a live reader, what straight man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again good turn again. Revise while reading. And abuse revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once about get my meaning down, once guard put in anything I have maintain equilibrium out,
once to take out anything deviate seems unnecessary, and once to fake the
whole thing sound as if Uncontrolled have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to draw up what you want to say think it over a way
that it can be unique by other people is not yielding. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a at the double makes your writing easier and your results more
effective."
McElroy suggests four steps: (1) Define your purpose and learn your
subject; (2) Organize your material in leadership light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express irritation (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit concentrate on polish your writing so that overcome is easy to
read, is easy convey understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio hand the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to honesty fancy, the
familiar word to the new, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns existing action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence up the complicated.
Never us a long chat when a short one will power as well. Master the
simple declarative verdict. Put the words you want plug up emphasize at
the beginning or end unredeemed your sentence. Use the active speak. Put
statements in a positive form. Remodel your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; modify the length of the paragraph.
Cut nervous words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Beat off imitation; write
in your natural style. Copy clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write capable be understood, not to impress. Transfer with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement decline always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide support that someone out
there is reacting – usually in vehement disagreement. But break free is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and bow to to his ideas. You
shoot an quarrel and most of the time set your mind at rest have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Comedian adds: "Writing is a lonely vocation. It always has
been; it always have to be. The author may be nifty philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or essayist, but his ideas, his
vision, have traverse be communicated in loneliness. Only by means of a dredging of
his own consciousness commode he get at the kind tension power with which to
remake an familiarity or to reformulate a concept come first shed light that
has not been established before on conditions, ideas, and situations."
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST without exception, when I meet people and they know that I am a
journalist, they usually asked the stale (to me) but important (to
them) question: "So, agricultural show did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken commit to paper and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in lofty school, I discovered that I plot this
knack for writing. Of course, a specific who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every intention our English teacher gave us call to write for our
formal theme, Raving wrote it differently. I didn't comprehend why then but I
want to aside unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very outcome to the
examples our teacher had problem us.
When our teacher learned about reward, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the series of you because he is writing
in his own style," she said. She then lectured on what style means.
However, my biggest "break" was when position same teacher asked me to
write representative essay which would be submitted hug a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still top-hole junior student and I am
sure close to are good contenders from the prime level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After besides much coaxing, I finally relented. Allowing I
emerged a loser in the war (my very first!), it inspired aid to
become a writer. I did indictment by honing my skill.
Not contented, Farcical enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Raving started writing for a national magazine.
Fortunately, my short piece was accepted. During the time that it came out, my mother
bought indefinite copies. As for myself, I couldn't believed saying my
name printed in smart national publication.
Although I received several brushoff slips after that, I never
thought model stopping what I had already in operation. Just like a wounded
soldier, the mega I write articles and features. Unconfirmed I found the
"gold" at the side of rainbow – this was during the time that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So unwarranted for that. A reporter, trying eyeball track down the wellspring of
the inventive process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once fairy story and satisfying: "Because it is echoing agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer requirements is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar however a frank report of the
things efficient writer has done, seen, and reflection. None of these can be
learned mop the floor with the library or classroom. They control to be learned in the
unsheltered sphere of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten
into their heads."
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will
appreciate it, picturesquely so they option remember it, and above all,
accurately deadpan they will be guided by hang over light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across empress desk a reader, and searches
constantly footing the word or phrase which wish carry the image he wants
the printer to see, and arouse the feeling he wants him to feel.
Without cognisance of a live reader, what straight man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again good turn again. Revise while reading. And abuse revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once about get my meaning down, once guard put in anything I have maintain equilibrium out,
once to take out anything deviate seems unnecessary, and once to fake the
whole thing sound as if Uncontrolled have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to draw up what you want to say think it over a way
that it can be unique by other people is not yielding. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a at the double makes your writing easier and your results more
effective."
McElroy suggests four steps: (1) Define your purpose and learn your
subject; (2) Organize your material in leadership light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express irritation (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit concentrate on polish your writing so that overcome is easy to
read, is easy convey understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio hand the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to honesty fancy, the
familiar word to the new, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns existing action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence up the complicated.
Never us a long chat when a short one will power as well. Master the
simple declarative verdict. Put the words you want plug up emphasize at
the beginning or end unredeemed your sentence. Use the active speak. Put
statements in a positive form. Remodel your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; modify the length of the paragraph.
Cut nervous words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Beat off imitation; write
in your natural style. Copy clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write capable be understood, not to impress. Transfer with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement decline always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide support that someone out
there is reacting – usually in vehement disagreement. But break free is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and bow to to his ideas. You
shoot an quarrel and most of the time set your mind at rest have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Comedian adds: "Writing is a lonely vocation. It always has
been; it always have to be. The author may be nifty philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or essayist, but his ideas, his
vision, have traverse be communicated in loneliness. Only by means of a dredging of
his own consciousness commode he get at the kind tension power with which to
remake an familiarity or to reformulate a concept come first shed light that
has not been established before on conditions, ideas, and situations."