"Literature is an art, because you can learn. It can be shown not only by a few gifted, but also by those who have acquired the literacy skills. As the saying goes, 'Genes are born, researchers are made. ' Therefore, everyone can use skills and become a literary scholar. "C-Rainald Paggao, 'stories and poems' (1992)
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A friend of mine, who loves to write, recently wrote to me asking advice on how to improve their literary skills and if I know some secrets in the development of competence and prolific writing. He also asked if I could, perhaps, be unselfish enough to share with you the secret if I knew them. Staring at his letter, I stopped smiling and then thought, and before the train of thoughts in my mind Choo-chooed gone, I took my pen and a sheet of parchment, dipped his pen in the ink bottle, and through the smooth parchment began to slide his hand in italics ...
Dear Melkite,
"Everyone can benefit from the expertise and become a literary scholar." However, becoming a literary writer, there is work to do and bittersweet pain of living. Of course, those who are literate can begin to write, but if you do not learn certain principles, will never reach its full potential as a writer, because without the following basics that will soon run out of words to express his ideas and even worse , you run out of ideas for writing. It ceases to be what he had aspired to become a writer.
So as you can improve your literary skills? How will you develop expertise and prolific writing? I wrap my answer into three "secrets"-writing, reading and study. Simple, you might think, but hone these skills involves self-discipline. Then if for any reason, simply can not be forced to "live" these habits?
Easy! Forget about becoming a writer. However, there are many other occupations where you can indulge.
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WRITE
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Obviously, this should be the first step in becoming a writer, and what I mean is, you write notes habit, so wherever you go, you should always have with you a pen and a notebook, or better yet, a diary. Compel yourself to write regularly and frequently wake up every morning, every time you break your work every night before bed. This is the beginning of fertility. Write to nothing, experiences, pleasures, pains, anything that appears in your mind, and regardless if it is only a couple of sentences, a phrase or word, write it down. Unless you put it on paper, you never know if you can stretch one scribbled in a pulp stories. Do not trust your memory. It is not flawless. This was the reason for stylus and parchment were invented, so people could document what might otherwise be lost in webbeddest corners of their minds. And usually, spur-of-the-moment ideas are more powerful. Even the greatest authors in literary history owes much to the incomprehensible jumble of words that initially scribbled in their journals in rare moments of inspiration. In fact, the first sentence of one of the most popular novels in the world, "the Hobbit'-" In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit ", was just a scribble its author, JRR Tolkien had written on a sheet of paper while mindlessly a very exciting day to see a hole in the carpet in his office. Now you can imagine how a small hole in a carpet had turned into something huge like 'The Lord of the Rings' and Middle-earth itself.
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READ
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I can never imagine "writing" without "reading." Can you? I mean, just as women were created to complement the men and vice versa, reading and writing exist to complement each other. Remember: good content writers to write, not only come from what they hear and see and usually come from
fusion of everything they read. So, you, as a writer, can greatly expand its wealth of ideas for reading a lot, encyclopedias, magazines, journals, wallets, all forms of advertising at all. And do not limit yourself to a particular genre or topics of interest to you. Not because you read fantasy fiction fantasy that only publications dealing with dwarves, elves do not, castles and swords, because you have romantic love and romance that will focus on pockets only, and not because we are already living in the Internet age that forgets classic literature. Be an eclectic reader. Read the best books of all kinds. This is the best way to become an expert writer. It broadens your knowledge and perspective, diversifying your taste, and especially for discovering different styles in writing. An eclectic reader is someone who has reread any of his school books, read a children's book, a journal Science, an almanac, a dictionary of the appendices, a Web-site article, and not afraid to try to read something obscure or unusual.
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STUDY
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You can express your "brilliant" ideas and write as many words and your style as original as we possibly could, but if you have a poor command of written language, what is the point? It is the very essence pretending to be a writer-for, especially prerequisites, a writer should be a master of grammar and letters. And 'enough that you can express on paper what is in your mind, but you must also be able to write accurate and grammatically correct. Therefore, it is essential that you have, apart from a dictionary and a thesaurus, a grammar book and a manual of style. The whole time you're writing, you should never stop learning and study and update you on the basics-writing the language evolving. / (C) 2004 ideas elf
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