by Omowunmi Oladokun
He coined and formed his own words, used and expressed himself in unique language styles and concept, a natural storyteller, Born in Stratford in 1854. William Shakespeare was an avid reader and writer till his death.
Who is a Writer?. A writer is a philosopher whose tools are not hard driven instrument but simple use of words. With words, he plays and relays information whether for education, entertainment or proposition and in utmost is to make gains. He lives and believes in the art of word.
A writer flies on the wings of imagination and sometimes on pure and existing facts/truth. He lands and delivers them in theory of words. Quick with the quill of the feather, or rather, always ready to save with his pen.
A writer barely feels the existence of irrelevance. Everything is worth writing down whether in his journal or on the media for the world to learn from too. Talk about his adventures, his senseless talk to his friends, his neighbours madness, his own craziness or maybe the trends, fashion, beauty, tech, styles or literature.
Anyone could write but it takes a serious composure and grammatical comprehension to put something meaningful together. Thus, the following may be the reason we may think writing is hard:
1. BEHIND THE LETTERS:
Maybe it’s the colloquial, the witty expressions; the pun intended use of words or the context in which letters are used which are sometimes incomprehensible and unfathomable to people other than the writer.
2. NATURAL FLAIR & ABILITIES:
Its pure talent, natural flow and expression. Writing doesn’t seem like a special course and No one really teaches another to write. When you know that you can do it, you wake up and get busy with it.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING.
Quality Content!. That is the simple secret to the write up all are drooling over. Just the same way, the content of a write up really matters and attract. It is probably not the topics and the conclusions only, though they are part of the whole. The simple recipes to a good piece of writing are not far-fetched and they are:
THE PLOT & OUTLINE: Talk about the guy who started building project without a proper plan, he will probably run out of vibes before he completes it. It is the same way that the outline and plot written out in points will help sustain your interest along the lines. Point earlier listed out can be built on to achieve a perfect piece of writing. A write up well plotted, outlined and arranged beforehand will turn out to be a good job.
BREVITY: Be brief, Find the exact right word or phrase, never stop reading and write what matters strictly. Be concise enough, go straight to the point and avoid verbosity.
QUALITY INFORMATION: Another writer also wrote about the importance of writing to convey information rather than to impress. Writing to impress keeps one within the affluence of man. For example; Journalist writers, Appraisal writers and other media personnel. Other form of writing like Academic write ups on Technology, Legal, Medical, Engineering e.t.c requires us to hit the nail exactly on the head with correct and quality researched information.
WHY YOU SHOULD GET HELP WITH WRITING?
No man is an island and a reservoir of knowledge. Everyone needs help in one way or the other in their daily endeavors and the same applies to writing.
This is the simple reason why most writers make excerpt from others write up with reference and acknowledgement in their footnote. To get the best of oneself in writing, it is essential that we don’t rely on our basic knowledge only and the following are the reasons why we need help when writing:
RESEARCH:
Sometimes, we are required to write things outside our field of study. Examples are daily innovative technology in the world of medicine, legal art, pharmacy and science as a whole. It takes digging and searching out of online materials and books to be able to complete that kind of work.
How do you write on things that you have no slightest clue of without research?. Research could make a person becomes a master craft at what he actually thought that he was formerly a novice at.
PROOFREADING:
No matter how perfect and beautiful your writing might be, it is not absolutely perfect until someone else helps you to read through and point out your errors to you for correction. Get a more partner to help you read through over and over again and you probably get the best result.
COMPARISON:
As written in the above article, what has irrelevant facts got to do with writing? Well, it is an interesting irrelevance that simply helps us to understand the subject matter. Relating things that are similar, most especially, simple daily experience help us to create a better understanding of the subject matter but don’t forget not to stray far away from the subject to frivolities that might become boring to your audience/reader.
CONCLUSION
Writing is an adventurous endeavour but don’t go it alone. Get help from people’s research work, get help with proof reading and compare with irrelevance. We really need help with all endeavours including writing, just the same way, you might need someone to hold your hands to climb the mountaintop.
Writing could become hard but it simply takes the understanding of English Language and being a self-taught ideology, it is worth trying over and over again till perfection.
As stated earlier, it is the content of the write up that makes it worthwhile and interesting to read. Quality content, brevity, plot/outline etc. these are the entire necessary ingredient that you need to make your perfect jollof rice, oh sorry, your next write up!.
