~ Est. 1978 ~
I recently released a special report for students of my Write It Right course. It contains my notes on good writing as I have learned from reading Stephen King’s memoir ‘On Writing’.
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There was a time when my writing hurt. Even my close friends were not interested to read what I would write.
That made me afraid to write because I feared offending others. I was afraid of the backlash I thought I would receive from what I wrote. I was afraid of people judging me. I was afraid of what people would say when they read what I had to say.
This was sometime in 2003 when I was about to get into a career of, well, writing about stocks. However, things improved over years as I wrote a lot. Apart from that, I read a lot of books on good writing. That helped me move past the fear of judgment and into a place where I could be confident about what I wanted to write about.
There is one thing that is common to you and me. We have this as the root of our relationship.
It is also common to any organisation, nation, economy, and civilization.
This one thing, if absent, will destroy the most the most successful business, bring down the most powerful government, put brakes on the most thriving economy, destruct the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, and the deepest love.
But if developed and leveraged, this one thing has the ability to create unparalleled success and affluence in every dimension of life.
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“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.” – Stephen King, On Writing
I came across this wonderful thought while reading King’s autobiography (for the third time!) last weekend.
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“Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw,” said Frank Thomas, the famous Disney animator, when asked to give advice to young animators.
Without doubt, Thomas was asking the youngsters to be creative each day of their lives.
Creativity is in fact the heart and soul of every artist, including a writer. But the truth is that doing creative work each day, over and over, is hard.
Sometimes the feeling that comes from being creative is great. This is the time when dozens of ideas are knocking at your mind’s door, waiting to be sent on a mission.
But then there are days when you just want to quit. You are at a loss of ideas while staring at the blank page.
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