Essay for The Making of a Writer

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The making of a writer

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

-         Benjamin Franklin

Writing is an important part of communication. The essential qualification for a good writer according to Ernest Hemingway is “ … built in, shock-proof and shit detector”. He claims that a writer should have the ability to find out the difference between good and bad writing. They should be more curious about discovering true ideas.

At modern times there are three kinds of writers,

1.      Quack writer – quack writers remains quack all his life and he is uninterested in writing.

2.      Quick writer – they are given a deadline to write.

3.      Quality writer- they have a commitment to write. These writers are called born writers.

In English literature great writers like Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Marlow, Lamb were great  and born writers.

 Every writers undergo rejection. Thomas Gray an English writer became famous for his work “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. He took seventeen years to complete this work and it is his masterpiece. A writer has moments of disappointment, pain, and tragedy. At the same time fame and fortune awaits for those writers.

Craft of writing is about how you are creating a sentence using words and ideas. It is a magic perfected by practise. Truth is the very essence of all good writing. Gandhiji was able to touch the heart of every Indian during the freedom struggle through his truthful writing. Churchill, president Franklin captured the heart of people their powerful words.

“Fear is the only thing to be feared” – Franklin

From the three great works namely Bhagavat Gita, Bible and Koran it is clear that knowledge has great longevity. To conclude, imagination is the soul of creative writing. The writers should portray reality in their writing. The power of a writer is judged by the number of hearts he or she wins.

      

 

 

 

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