Here I am, again, relying on the internet to inject me ideas and most of all, inspire me to write. The trick to write better is to do it unconsciously or in a state of red ears when you're in state of hypnosis; this happens when you're halfway into it, or sometimes, the moment you've begun writing. The magic comes at times, and at times it doesn't (most of the times it doesn't, if I have to speak about me frankly) but it shouldn't stop us from writing. But it does, or else, I would've written a lot more than I am these days and things would have looked brighter than it is. Then what the hell is stopping me from?
It is exactly how Stephen King said about adverbs: Fear is behind bad writing. When you realize this or have read it before you've developed guts and a hide thicker than rhinoceros's, you are going to fear it even before the blank page appears. It becomes then, psychosomatic, and the fear provides you excuses to evade from the daily ritual of writing, even a page. The excuses are easier to come up with and they're not wonderful either. 'I'm percolating!' is one, though that wouldn't be the word I'd be saying it initially. The best one is, of course, 'I'm learning about writing'. This is a virus that if identified, is bound to kill you more than any other bad habit of writing would (especially, procrastination). You're more eager to read about writing than the actual lessons: the books full of stories, the books full of magic. You become interested then, not in the castles that go over the clouds and are majestic to look from even for a migrating albatross, but in the hard task of how they're built. It's not wrong. How can you build one, or at least try to begin with, if you've no idea about the tools or the skills? However, reading manuals will not inject you the ability to build; it is the building that gives it. 'You must not just TRY to do things; you must DO them' - Ray Bradbury said so effectively that it's easy to imagine Strunk's magical rule 'Omit needless words' stands in the form of a knight in his mind guarding the genius's magic by detecting shit that tries to come through.
One or two is fine, and it is better if they're by those you love to read. I love Stephen King, and from him, Ray Bradbury (It must have been the other way, but I'm sure the cotton-haired magician would forgive me for it). Then, if you read them, it is easy to imagine their intent behind the advice and see as an evidence, the magic. What good will be, if the only book you've read of the author is his writing manual or the random webpage that proclaims his 'Rules of Writing'? It's as good as following a guide whom you have only picked randomly because he has the badge, through a dense forest. It's not a forest you've come for a simple trek; this is the forest you
It is exactly how Stephen King said about adverbs: Fear is behind bad writing. When you realize this or have read it before you've developed guts and a hide thicker than rhinoceros's, you are going to fear it even before the blank page appears. It becomes then, psychosomatic, and the fear provides you excuses to evade from the daily ritual of writing, even a page. The excuses are easier to come up with and they're not wonderful either. 'I'm percolating!' is one, though that wouldn't be the word I'd be saying it initially. The best one is, of course, 'I'm learning about writing'. This is a virus that if identified, is bound to kill you more than any other bad habit of writing would (especially, procrastination). You're more eager to read about writing than the actual lessons: the books full of stories, the books full of magic. You become interested then, not in the castles that go over the clouds and are majestic to look from even for a migrating albatross, but in the hard task of how they're built. It's not wrong. How can you build one, or at least try to begin with, if you've no idea about the tools or the skills? However, reading manuals will not inject you the ability to build; it is the building that gives it. 'You must not just TRY to do things; you must DO them' - Ray Bradbury said so effectively that it's easy to imagine Strunk's magical rule 'Omit needless words' stands in the form of a knight in his mind guarding the genius's magic by detecting shit that tries to come through.
One or two is fine, and it is better if they're by those you love to read. I love Stephen King, and from him, Ray Bradbury (It must have been the other way, but I'm sure the cotton-haired magician would forgive me for it). Then, if you read them, it is easy to imagine their intent behind the advice and see as an evidence, the magic. What good will be, if the only book you've read of the author is his writing manual or the random webpage that proclaims his 'Rules of Writing'? It's as good as following a guide whom you have only picked randomly because he has the badge, through a dense forest. It's not a forest you've come for a simple trek; this is the forest you
