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25th July 2007
Chris
Kennelly
Writers who desperately need to earn a living
will have no other choice but to go on and
write anything that will get in the
bucks.
She was sitting inside a public transportation;
then, all of the sudden, thoughts suddenly seem
to swirl inside her head and she ached to be
with a notepad and pen so she could write them
all down. She finds a notepad and a pen, she is
lucky and the thoughts became words. She does
not find them, she gets upset as the thoughts
she was nursing so tenderly like a baby
dissipated like dust into the winds.
That is how writers go about in their daily
lives. There are moments when they could think
of nothing to write at all and times when they
are bombarded with so many ideas that their
hands could not keep up or the inks of their
pens would run out, whatever comes first.
But there is always a question that bugs every
writer, and that is, To write or not to write?
When they are faced with the opportunity of
writing about something that is not their
forte, would they or would they rather not
write about it?
Writers who desperately need to earn a living
will have no other choice but to go on and
write anything that will get in the bucks. But,
comes the mental block, how will they go about
writing about something that they are not even
passionate about? How could a poet write about
the technical aspects of a car? How could a
literary writer do a news article on something
as horrid as a vehicular accident?
Here are tips on how to be a flexible
writer:
Research,
research, research.
If a writer, especially one who is just
starting out and still trying to learn the
ropes of being flexible, gets assigned to write
a topic that he or she knows nothing about, he
or she will not go amiss with lots and lots of
research. There are a lot of sites on the net
that offers sample articles on just about any
topic under the sun. Through research, the
writer will be able to get an idea on where she
or he has to do and what she or he still needs
to look up to be able to come up with the facts
needed in her or his article.
Read.
Aside from getting facts from the net for a
story or an article, a writer will also do well
by reading a lot of materials like newspapers,
magazines, manuals or books that will help in
constructing the pieces that she or he needs to
come up with.
Use the radio and
TV as your eyes and ears.
A
writer's ears and eyes are also very important
in coming up with a piece that she or he does
not know much about. If she or he is told to
write about current events, then she could use
radio and television as sources of information
as to what is happening around. From news
reports or documentaries, she or he could get a
lot of information for the piece she or he is
working on.
Be always
ready.
So as not to miss out on any tidbit of
information, a writer must have a pen and
notepad with her or him wherever she or he
goes. A writer never knows when an occasion or
happening presents itself that she or he could
produce into an article that is worth a
reader's while.
Nothing is a
waste for a writer.
When an
idea presents itself to a writer, whether it be
for money or for no reason at all, she or he
jots it down. Writers never waste something
that could get her or him writing. An idea, no
matter how bad or juvenile, is an idea that
could be worked on when the tough gets
going.
So to write or not to write? If one is a real
writer, one writes no matter what. Because when
we get down to it, a writer is not just born
but also made. With a lot of hard work and
perseverance, a writer becomes outstanding when
she or he could take on any topic and write
something about it that will not only be just
readable but a success.
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