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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Writing skills

My last post’s date reads Dec 25, 2006. Its almost two months since I posted anything.
Why? What is the reason? I was just pondering over this question. Though I was held up at office for most of the time due to work, still I could not blame my work alone for not posting some thoughts and views, for thoughts are the things that comes along with everybody at all times. So after a long thought process, I concluded that it was my writing skill that is stopping me from posting. It was that time I decided to post my small thought process on writing skills itself.

This is not any fine researched article on writing skills. One can find a hell lot of articles about writing skills in the internet. What I have put here are my thoughts and feelings on writing skills. I use the word feelings because, I always wanted to write, though I never aimed at becoming a full time writer, I badly wanted to be a part time writer. Ok lets stop this and move on to the writing skills.

Writing is a skill, which comes more with reading. People who read more tend to have good writing skills. Well there may be a big set of rules or classes conducted to improve writing skills. But unless the person has a good reading habit, he might somehow miss the real essence of writing.
Reading introduces us the concept of writing things in different ways unconsciously. Your writings will automatically start following the practical writing rules set by your predecessors.
When we go through the experiences of amateur writers, we can conclude that, new or different ideas come at any time, and noting them down immediately saves a lot of re thinking. This is considered as the success of amateur writers.
With many channels opening up for people to express their ideas, the number of amateur writers has increased many folds. Blogging is considered to be the top most among these channels.
People now have started pouring their ideas and view points about the things that happen around them. The best thing is that, the audiences for these writings are people all around the world.

The other channel that has revolutionized writing is wikipedia. The only difference is that, this does not post your thoughts and viewpoints, but it takes what has really happened and what it really means. Its an encyclopedia written by many people all around the world, who have never seen, and who may never see each other.

So lets put all our writing skills and start writing. And to start writing, first lets start
reading…………

PS: The article might have been a serious note on writing skills with no trace of humor in it. I had to write this article just for the heck of posting something in my blog.