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Rome was not built in a day, and so is your work. A good piece of writing cannot be written on first attempt.
As I have always been telling my readers, constant practice and writing is the only key to a successful writer.
Just yesterday, my friend asked me, "You always keep telling me to write. But HOW MUCH do I write?". This got me thinking.
What I do is follow a plan. In the beginning of the year, I set an objective for my writing. I fix a goal to finish three good pieces of my personal writing each week. It keeps me busy in my leisure time and also helps me improve my writing skills.
One can plan as he/she wishes and is suitable for him/her. If you are not too busy to devote much time, you can fix a goal of finishing five pieces a week. Or you can settle down on a monthly basis, of finishing thirty to fifty pages of your novel or anything you wish. Even making a yearly plan comes in handy to our busy-bees.
The first thing to get down to is to make the plan or objective. While doing so, keep in mind what you write, how and when. Remember how much time you can devote each day and find a suitable goal.
But the most important part of this is to stick to you timetable. No use making overambitious plans and goals just to build castles in the air!
Just try my idea once and share the result with me here. I'd be glad to hear the pros or cons.
The comment section awaits you :)
While surfing the net, I recently came across the world's longest poem.
World's longest poem in English literature is written by Nigel Tomm who is a writer and artist.
Here's an excerpt from the first page:
Blah me. Blame you.
Blah you. About you. You blame me. Blah you.
I blah as you or blah by blah,
You know. You blah. You blah it out of blah.
Blah blah. Blah blah.
His book "The Blah Story, Volume 8" consists of one poem which contains 98,728 words, 449,441 characters (with spaces), 23,161 lines, 728 pages. This becomes the longest published poem in English. The poem is called 'My Blah Story'. The book was published in February 9, 2008.
Intrigued, I searched more about this incredible author. Nigel Tomm is a writer/artist who time and again pushes the limitations of literature. His novel "The Blah Story" is a clear example of that.
"The Blah Story" is based mostly with sturdy beat with over usage of the word 'blah'.
Isn’t this really interesting? Have you ever imagined writing a poem more than 1000 words? And think of this incredible author sweating over writing a poem almost 1,00,000 words long.
Other known long poem "Pieces of Hope" by Patrick Huet, has nearly 7,600 verses written on a roll of fabric that stretches to almost one kilometer. The poem is not published. Other really long poems were written by ancient
So here’s your turn. Don’t shy away from sharing your longest piece of poetry with me. I’d be pleased!
Twilight written by Stephanie Meyer is series of books about Vampire love story.
The theme of the novel pricked my interest. It is a teenage love story but the twist in it is that there's a blood drinking dangerous vampire existing!
It is a story about a teenager called Isabella Swan who has moved to Forks, Washington with her father Charlie. She abhors the new city, truly unlike Phoenix, where she lived earlier. She has no interest in her new school, new friends, until.....she meets a guy called Edward. Edward has intrigued her since she first set her eyes on him. Then they turn out to be Lab partners in Biology.
Edward has an exquisite beauty, and the way Stephenie describes it in the book is awe inspiring and out of the ordinary. His eyes are the basic communication for Bella. She initially learns that he abhors him with trying to change his class timings, disappearing for a week or more and then giving her frustrated looks.
When deep down she is resenting and anguished, he turns back to normal, and out of the ordinary gets talking to her courteously. And then Edward changed before her eyes...
Bella was unfortunately entangled in an accident, where Edward rescues her heroically. She was going to be run down by a van, when Edward comes and saves her. The troubling part is that the van was coming at full speed and Edward was nowhere near. Bella was certain that it was some sort of magic, that he rescued her, but Edward denied everything being anything other than ordinary.
Bella persuades him to disclose his secret, his exquisite beauty and looks unlike all others, everything about him was intriguing. Then they get to talking, and Bella slowly discovers that both love each other, and with the love comes another shocking revelation-
Edward was a blood thirsty vampire!!
The rest of the story revolves around how Edward protects her, how she gets approved by his family and how Edward stops himself. The scent of Bella blood always aroused him, bu his love for her, gave him the strength to overcome it.
Their relationship is thrown into bedlam when another vampire group comes to Forks. James, a tracker vampire who is intrigued by the Cullens' relationship with a human, wants to hunt Bella for sport. The Cullens attempt to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in
The rest of the plot revolves around how Bella is rescued or caught and finally, her desire to trun into a vampire herself.
The Wikipedia describes the journal as a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary.
Do you all keep a journal? I have been keeping one since I was in grade 6. Often, in the beginning, I thought that it was a sheer waster of time, energy and ink. But then I realized how it wasn’t as I thought.
If you do not maintain a journal, here are ten reasons for you to do so immediately:
1. One does not always have a person in life with whom you can share any or everything. A diary can be the best of your friend and the worst of you critic. You can share anything with it, and express the deepest of your thoughts easily.
2. Anne Frank never imagined that every teenager would someday read her diary and get inspired. Even if yours is not read by others, you might be inspired by it yourself, nonetheless.
3. It is similar to talking to oneself, but talking to yourself in a café can be awkward or embarrassing. But certainly, writing a journal wouldn’t be inappropriate at all. Writing a memoir becomes an output of pure emotion; purer than you can ever imagine.
4. It might unexpectedly act as you inspiration for writing a story, novel or anything else.
5. You can write in second person and advice yourself or motivate yourself, like no one has ever done. You can be the best of your advisor or friend.
6. You can chill out with it too. Your journal can be anything- a friend, a guide, a cuppa coffee for refreshment, a relaxation, a way of refreshing your pent up mind.
7. It is a safe way to keep your secrets :P
8. While reading through yourself, you can analyze yourself and see through your invisibility. Often, one can be surprised at how well he/she writes too.
9. It’s the easiest way to go to bed with a sound mind.
10. You will always have someone in the time of need. I bet you will never feel lonely.
These days, the trend is to keep an online journal. You can keep a blog, which can be kept private or share it with the blogosphere. It is quite the same as a traditional dairy.
And to encourage you even further, there are different simple techniques that can be used.
You can write a dialogue journal which can be written as a letter to yourself when you are down in pits. When you find a solution to your problem, write another letter. This could serve as your own bank of wisdom.
You could write a gratitude journal, where you can make yourself realize that life is not always bad and there are good things that happen to you too. Write them all down in a diary. When you are feeling low, look into these pages and you’ll feel better.
You could even write a goal journal which is especially handy for those who can never stick to their resolutions. Goals are likely to be met if penned down.
Art Journals are for those whose creativity knows no bounds. Not one to use ink?? Use colors and paints and splash it all the way!
So get to work. Choose you journal today and start writing!
I just keep on wondering why I did not review this book earlier. To Kill A Mocking Bird- by Harper Lee is one of the most brilliant pieces of literary fiction I have ever read. It was the first and last book published by the author and also won a Pulitzer prize. It deals with many serious issues like racial discrimination in America, but the style of writing is such, that all will enjoy it! It is a story about a six-year-old Jean Scout Finch, who also narrates it in her lively and bubbly manner. She lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout become friends with a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated with, their neighbor, the solitary "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years, few have seen him. The children feed each other's imaginations with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden. Soon, the children find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Atticus, her father, is assigned to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of molesting Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus' actions, calling him a "nigger-lover". Scout is tempted to stand up for her father's honor by fighting, even though he has told her not to. For his part, Atticus faces a group of men intent on lynching Tom. The book has a serious storyline which deals with aspects of racism, and involves other phases of violence and alienation. To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's classic novel which one cannot miss reading. The novel is memorable because of the adventures and personal tumult the character undergoes in her development as a human being. Some characters reach out to millions of hearts with the veracity of cruelty in the world--with war, violence, death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues. The book is a unique, one of its kind read, that you cannot afford missing! It stands really high in my reading list.
