Category: Writing (Page 18 of 19)

Always keep the reader in mind, but choose a subject you are comfortable with.

Writing should come naturally, they say. And I agree with them. But not all writers are lucky enough to write what comes naturally to them and, then, get paid for it.

Even if you don’t write for money, I am sure you write to be read. And for that you have to write about something that would be of interest to a potential reader.

While you are choosing the subject, you have to ensure that what you have chosen does not fall outside your comfort zone. Sometimes it is easy to get carried away.

A perfect example would be all the money making blogs out in the blogosphere. Just because there is an audience that is dying to read about making money online, you don’t have to start writing on the subject.

On the contrary, if there is something that you are an expert at, you might create an audience for it, even if none exists.

Don’t you agree?

For some reason I thought the idea of posting a story on my blog was a good idea.

Since the story was long, the obvious thing to do was break it up in parts and post it in serial form, which, I thought, was another great idea.

But my experience with the story I posted ( The Bank Robbery) tells me otherwise.

The reason could either be that the story I wrote was not good enough to compel the reader to go back to the start and follow the story to the end, or it could be that the idea of writing a story in serial form on a blog is not a good idea.

I think a better way to showcase your writing on your blog is to have a separate page for it. What do you think?

There is something about “how to” books that grabs the reader’s attention and makes him want to buy the book. I think my first “how to” book was named ” How to become a writer?”

Needless to say, that book did not help me a lot. Was it because the book was not good or because I was too young to understand it then, can be debated. But, the book was not a complete waste of money.

At that time whatever I wrote was in long hand. The book said if you are aspiring to be a writer you should have a word processor, or at the least a typewriter. Since buying a computer was not even a option, I began to look for typewriters.

I began to save my pocket money in the hope of buying a typewriter.  Every time I saw an advertisement in the paper for a typewriter, my eyes would be filled with a deep yearning. Of course, I couldn’t tell about my desire to my parents because writing to them was merely, “a waste of time”.

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