Free E-course : Want to Become a Writer?(part 6)

Chapter I : Basics

Writers are not born (continued)

For becoming a Writer yourself, you have been seeing the preliminary steps so far.  Why it is necessary to go into the mental exercises you have been learning? Well – you are going to transform yourself into a Writer– from whatever roles you have been playing, outwardly in the real world hitherto.

You may be a student, a professional, a businessman or woman, an employee, a father, mother, brother, sister or whatever. These are identifications of you in the society. Now – are you identified as a Writer? I am sure you are not – otherwise you will not be reading this.

For transforming yourself – I mean the inner-self – into a Writer, you are required to see things you have all along been seeing hitherto, differently.  So it becomes imperative to prepare yourself to become a Writer. You are going to construct a skill – a skill all these years you were not having, but aspiring for, to become a Writer.

You must have watched farmers preparing the ground for sowing anything. They first clean up everything from the field, connected with the previous crop, without a trace. Dig and till the land hard, to make it ready for the new seed to get into it and grow healthy. This is what you are doing now – preparing the mind as clean as a slate, to let in new thoughts afresh to stick and grow.

Similarly for a brick and mortar building, a strong foundation is laid. After digging deep into the ground, hard stones are laid first, to withstand the construction for years. You are laying the foundation to become a Writer. If you learn a skill, totally new to you, it will never go from you. For example, if you learn the skill of riding a bicycle, when you are eight or ten years, even at the age of sixty-plus, you can ride a bicycle, whenever you get one – no matter what.

Remember when you first sat on the cycle to learn – your mentor was giving so many instructions. Sit upright; look straight; don’t bend your back; hold the handle bars tightly; this and that. You followed them earnestly – each one of them. When you learnt the balancing and were on your own – how elated you were on riding the cycle, feeling on the top of the world? (It is a different matter altogether when you were a regular cyclist, not following any of the first-day-cautions and fly).

This is what you are going to do when you are a full-fledged Writer. Now learn more on the exercises….  (To be continued).