Tips To Writing by Cally Rao
” Peter was late because the alarm didn’t go off “( a note under the door of my class when I was teaching ).Sign posted in a church: ” Please do not leave your belongings unattended. Someone might think it’s the answer to their prayers.” Q. How many politicians does it take to fix the economy? Twenty! One To fix it and the other 19 to form a fact finding committee to learn more about how it’s done. ‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers’ – Shakespeare. A young girl facing early death in the The Diary Of Anne Frank – what would life be without the written word!?
Take baby steps:
a. Write A Headline – e.g. The Crash Of Flight 418, The Woman From Mars,What Causes Travel Sickness And Why Doesn’t Everyone Get It? Then flesh it. Do some fact finding and research, stir your own imagination’s vaults and just start writing. Just one thing – make it FUN doing it. In 1976, a man who was then teaching began to wander off to his farming days when many of the chickens he was raising were massacred by a fox. Wouldn’t it be fun he thought then to write a story in which the chickens fought back? He ( Dick King-Smith ) did! Ten years later he wrote The Fox- Busters and went on to write more than 90 books among them a book that was made into a movie that you may have seen, The Babe. You don’t have to write a best selling novel yet – but write paragraphs first. Then an article. A short story next. Keep in mind to see that there’s a bit of your dragon breathing through the drama.
b. Carry a scrapbook with you in your travel kit and when you overhear conversations, or come across a very colorful four word description in the papers, in a novel, and even movie dialogues grab that pen and jot it down. Keep keeping and as time marches on you’ll be able to write vintage, authoring your own works…….Here are some sentences out of my own scrapbook when I was 19: a cobweb of options, headed for a garage of ideas, stubbing out fears, the fist of the past, a cavallier of hope, will the party fizzle when the sake runs dry, sawdust headed puppet, gaping to drink hope, lettuce-field peace, crusading with a paper sword, big companies stuck in sunset industries, exporting obsolescence etc etc
c. Use your imagination to invent, conjure scenes and even caricatures while riding a bus, traveling on the trains ( instead of blankly looking out like a drone ) or even as you come into the company of your grandparents and their friends. They may have a lot of stories to tell. Attempt writing them down. Years ago on a bus ride with my parents a character popped into my imagination. I called him Ali Bongo for no other reason than that at that time a head of a country in Africa was in the news and it kinda sounded unique. And he’s the star of a couple of stories I have written – about his adventures running a government and his run in with his ministers.
You may want to share your work on a blog, an online journal. Why? When you have published your work you feel a sense of achievement and get spurred to keep writing. Online travelers will read your writings, be entertained, leave comments and feedback and that would inspire you on. You would also learn and face up to what it takes to be an author.You might – just write the next bestseller couple of years down the road. Remember, no farmer got a harvest without sowing.
Here’s where you could get a free blog.
http://www.jacobsvalley.blogspot.com
To your writing,
Cally Rao
About the Author
former manufacturing manager, college instructor and an Internet Marketer.
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