Post by account_disabled on Dec 13, 2023 1:12:03 GMT -5
You have to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there. Berra is a former American baseball player and probably knows nothing about writing. But some of his maxims are truly brilliant, in my opinion. The one I reported struck me, because it truly contains the essence of writing. Indeed, of any concept. Let's start with the questions. As a writer, do you know where you're going? Do you have a clear vision in mind of your future as a writer? Or do you write just to write without a goal in mind? Did you take a road? What are you doing to build your writing career? What do you do to overcome difficulties? Still beating around the bush with little stories without a specific goal to achieve? Start answering these questions.
Your vision of writing As a writer you have to know where you're going. You need to know your goals, what you want to get out of writing and what you write. As a writer you must have a vision, the vision of your writing . You don't have to predict the future, of course. You have to mentally realize what writing will give you. You must look to the future as the Phone Number Data ultimate goal of your writing. Edgar Allan Poe argued that stories must be written starting from the end ( Marginalia LXXXI) and I think he was right. That way we have the gist of our story in mind and can reconstruct backwards what led to that end. As a writer you have to do the same. You have to build your writing career by starting from the end: from what you want to have.
In this way you will be able to create your training and work path to reach that goal. Express your vision Today's first exercise consists of precisely this: looking into your future, taking a look and then withdrawing. All metaphorically. You have to look into your dreams and desires as a writer and write your vision: write what you want to achieve with your writing, write about the goals you aim for. From the reader's perspective The intended audience for your writing are readers: what are you offering them? And most importantly, what are you doing to get readers? The second exercise is this: expressing yourself as a writer from the perspective of your readers. Don't look at yourself, now, as a writer, but as if you were an ordinary reader who stumbles upon one of your stories. It's difficult? Of course, but here we don't like easy things, otherwise there's no fun in fighting.
Your vision of writing As a writer you have to know where you're going. You need to know your goals, what you want to get out of writing and what you write. As a writer you must have a vision, the vision of your writing . You don't have to predict the future, of course. You have to mentally realize what writing will give you. You must look to the future as the Phone Number Data ultimate goal of your writing. Edgar Allan Poe argued that stories must be written starting from the end ( Marginalia LXXXI) and I think he was right. That way we have the gist of our story in mind and can reconstruct backwards what led to that end. As a writer you have to do the same. You have to build your writing career by starting from the end: from what you want to have.
In this way you will be able to create your training and work path to reach that goal. Express your vision Today's first exercise consists of precisely this: looking into your future, taking a look and then withdrawing. All metaphorically. You have to look into your dreams and desires as a writer and write your vision: write what you want to achieve with your writing, write about the goals you aim for. From the reader's perspective The intended audience for your writing are readers: what are you offering them? And most importantly, what are you doing to get readers? The second exercise is this: expressing yourself as a writer from the perspective of your readers. Don't look at yourself, now, as a writer, but as if you were an ordinary reader who stumbles upon one of your stories. It's difficult? Of course, but here we don't like easy things, otherwise there's no fun in fighting.