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Where I Disagree with Stephen King!

May 31, 2013 / / 4 Comments

imagesRecently, I was reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing (a book you must read, if you haven’t), and I came across this interesting comment:

 “… while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work , dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one.”

I was surprised on reading this, because most of my life I have believed that with hard work and dedication anything can be achieved. So, why should it be impossible to become a great writer, even if you are a bad one today, or even if you are not a writer at all?

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Ten Great Quotes for Writers!

March 6, 2013 / / 1 Comment

1406476_blank_metal_plaque_5Quotes have always been around, but in the age of Twitter and Facebook, they have become ubiquitous. Over the past couple of years, I am sure you must have come across many great quotes too – shared by your friends on Twitter or posted by them on Facebook.

Here is a list of ten great quotes about writing that I have come across over the years. I hope you like them as much as I do.

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Who Decides What You Write?

January 21, 2013 / / 2 Comments

557104_writing_block_1The answer to the question seems pretty straightforward – You decide what you write. No?

After discussions with friends and fellow bloggers, however, I have found out that things are not that simple.

When we start writing, we write what we want to write, but for most of us that time doesn’t last long. Today, with so many outlets for our creative energies, it is not too difficult to run out of creative steam. What happens then?

The Internet has made it possible for our words reach the farthest corner (maybe not the farthest, but  you get the point, don’t you?) of the world within no time. Simultaneously, the Internet has also made it possible for anyone who reads us to give you feedback in real time.

 Is that good for us, as writers?

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Do you know of an interesting blog about Writing, Creativity, or Inspiration?

September 25, 2012 / / 4 Comments

If you have been blogging for any length of time, I am sure you must have used a blog surfing  website like Blogexplosion or Entrecard. A lot of people I have talked to are not very fond of surfing sites because they believe that most visitors from such sites are mindlessly clicking the widgets without paying attention to the content of the blog.

Though this contention is true for most people, yet over the years I have found several interesting blogs as well as several regular visitors to this blog through the blog surfing websites.

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Four Tips to Reading Like a Writer!

February 24, 2012 / / 4 Comments

They always say that writers should read. “They,” of course, referring to the infinitely famous and notoriously vague entity that determines what should and should not be done. Pronouns aside, the advice is solid. Reading enables writers to learn more about their craft by seeing what was successful for others. At the beginning, many writers start off their projects by imitating the styles of successful writers before they develop their own–imitation stemmed from reading the works of authors they admire. Along the way, writers can gain inspiration through reading the works of others in their genre, or gain insight into a new genre that writer is considering branching into.

I feel it’s safe to say that reading and writing go hand in hand. Hell, half of us were inspired to go into writing through our passion for reading. However, I would not say that “simply reading” is always enough. In order for a writer to truly gain anything (other than the enjoyment of a good story) from reading, she must read not like a reader, but like a writer.

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