Many folks say, “I can teach writing.”
But can they?
Writers seldom have the skills to teach or show someone else how to write. Teaching is an art, an empathy, a willingness to help others understand something new to them.
Teaching others demands patience with the learner. It demands repeating something in a different way. Teachers know how people learn. Styles of leaning are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Writing teachers need learners who want to learn writing.
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- Ernest Hemingway
- Jane Austin
- Leo Tolstoy
- James Joyce
- Wiliam Shakespeare
But does that mean we leaned how to have thoughts, put them together with meaning? Only through reading good writing, the writing of masters of writing like ~
And countless other writers, some famous, others hoping to become famous someday.
Do you really want to be a writer?
Can you spend hour after countless hour before a keyboard pounding out what may turn into nothing?
Well, not nothing. But a bunch of garbage, after all.
There’s the matter of practice. Anything to be learned demands practice. Without it, the art is lost.
Writing DEMANDS practice.
“But I don’t like to practice,” you say.
My reply to that comment is this,
“Then why do you want to be a writer? What a writer does is practice writing. “
Writing DEMANDS practice! If you don’t want to or can’t practice writing, do you REALLY want to be a writer?
- Maybe you just have writer’s block? That is when no thoughts enter your mind to put into written material for others to read.
- There are more pressing matters in your life demanding immediate attention.
- You just don’t feel “up to writing” today.
My answer to all those excuses is this:
“WRITE ANYWAY!”
Google it. Get an idea. Think of an intriging headline. Make an outline.
There are many writing prompts on the internet to provide you with ideas even if you think you have none. And, when you start writing, miraculously something will pop into your head.
So. start writing. You have an idea.
Whoopee!
Develop it.
