Are you/would you like to be:
Apologist, Auto/Biographer, Book Author, Columnist, Essayist, Ghost Writer, Journalist, Preacher, Propagandist, Speaker, Writer?
Your first duty to yourself is to be a creative writer. Here’s my free & original advice on creative thinking/writing: The 7 Ex’s Of Creative Writing:
1. Exploring:
Surf the Web! Do you know how to do a Google search? Learn to use double quotes for quick, fruitful searches. Examples: “creative writing” “Frank A Hilario” – the double quotes make exact searches.
Surf the Web! Do you know how to do a Google search? Learn to use double quotes for quick, fruitful searches. Examples: “creative writing” “Frank A Hilario” – the double quotes make exact searches.
Collect your search results into a single file, with the URL copied, so that you can go back and/or credit the source properly.
The more searches the better, especially if your subject matter is technical.
2. Extracting:
Time to read your notes. Read and jot down into the text what comes to mind, what you understand, what you don’t understand, what research you may need to do further. Do Track Changes so that your notes are visible, in red. (Red to remind you of passion and love.)
Time to read your notes. Read and jot down into the text what comes to mind, what you understand, what you don’t understand, what research you may need to do further. Do Track Changes so that your notes are visible, in red. (Red to remind you of passion and love.)
3. Exploiting:
After Exploring and Extracting and jotting down Notes, never mind grammar, time to take a break. Forget everything. Do something else unrelated, to relax your mind.
After Exploring and Extracting and jotting down Notes, never mind grammar, time to take a break. Forget everything. Do something else unrelated, to relax your mind.
Actually, when you completely relax, your mind is at work! When you go back to writing – you will have 1 or 2 or more new or improved ideas with which to write your masterpiece.
The book that helped me master brainstorming is the one by Edward de Bono, Mechanism Of Mind (1968). Lesson from De Bono: Look at the negative in the eye – you might learn something!
4. Expressing:
But suppose nothing creative or original comes out of your time “Exploiting”? Don’t worry about it! When you have gotten used to the 7 Ex’s of Creative Writing, new and/or improved ideas will come out of your ears!
But suppose nothing creative or original comes out of your time “Exploiting”? Don’t worry about it! When you have gotten used to the 7 Ex’s of Creative Writing, new and/or improved ideas will come out of your ears!
For now, just type your Draft 1. Just type. No matter how bad it looks, just keep on typing. Draft 1 is only the beginning, catching the first thoughts. Draft is draft; no matter how bad it looks, it’s good – you can revise later.
Then forget your Draft. For 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day.
5. Examining:
After resting your mind, go back to your Draft – time to rewrite. “There is no good writing – only good rewriting” – Rudolf Flesch, German-American writing adviser, author of How To Write, Speak And Think More Effectively (1960). This book, which my room neighbor at the Velasco’s Dorm and friend Manny Alkuino gifted me at UP Los Baños when we were still studying, helped me tremendously in creative writing.
After resting your mind, go back to your Draft – time to rewrite. “There is no good writing – only good rewriting” – Rudolf Flesch, German-American writing adviser, author of How To Write, Speak And Think More Effectively (1960). This book, which my room neighbor at the Velasco’s Dorm and friend Manny Alkuino gifted me at UP Los Baños when we were still studying, helped me tremendously in creative writing.
6. Excelling:
The only way to excel is to go back to your last draft, go back to your notes, go back to your last draft and refine your paragraphs and sentences. This will need some practice, but later on you will be able to do it – improve on yourself.
The only way to excel is to go back to your last draft, go back to your notes, go back to your last draft and refine your paragraphs and sentences. This will need some practice, but later on you will be able to do it – improve on yourself.
7. Exhaling:
Yes, there comes the time when you have to release it to the world – just do it! And thank God for another chance at writing for good!@517
Yes, there comes the time when you have to release it to the world – just do it! And thank God for another chance at writing for good!@517
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