Sharpening your writing skills is not an easy task. For the budding writers in our colleges and universities, getting articles published serves to spur them on. What if no editor accepts to publish your articles in any of the national publications at all? Well, this is the most common scenario that faces young aspiring writers. It is very important to dissect what can really spur and help you shape and sharpen your writing career.
First, the will and confidence may be what has been lacking in your works. Most things are not so easy, comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have you believe. These events cannot be expressed and put in the realm in which they exactly exist.
Works of art require great endurance and personal reminiscence. Your verses may not be of that individual style but they must offer and portray you in them; a simple voice through which you can be heard.
You probably have asked people if the articles are good. You can burn with internal conflicts about the articles. You contrast them with other existing articles from established writers. It bothers you when most of them tell you to at least up your grammar. Heading that direction may please for a while but my opinion is for you to give all that.
No established writer can counsel you. There is only one single way. If there is any other, then it must be the wrong way. The writer’s path is narrow, but you must go into yourself. Delve deeper into what urges you to write. Research in the different chambers of your heart, if the urge roots deeper to them and their corridors, sum up with acknowledgement that you have a dead spirit if you don’t write. If so, nose out for themes.
Themes come from nature. Simply avoid common topics. Despite the fact that they are too common, they are the most troublesome to bring out your ideas through. Love is common to everybody. Avoid it at the amateur stage. It is not that you can’t write about them but it’s that by high chance you don’t have the material to satisfy your conscience.
Nature requires full and keen description. Describe it through your desires and sorrows. Describe nature with quite loving, humble and the sincerity by which it answers the various questions it raises within its horizon. Stick by that.
After you try to turn your attention to uncover the far past, enjoy and hate what it may offer, that’s when you will have succeeded in turning inward than just the outward obvious. It will then occur to you not to pester any magazine for their publication feeling of self possession in the articles will spread to other people who will soon be infected by your spirit; which is to pronounce the words of mother-nature.
Finally, though a stranger I may be, I have truly and honestly shared with you what the situation was like, is like, will be like.
BY SIMON INGARI
