Foot Prints: Writers Dilemma

Foot Prints: Writers Dilemma: Even as I write this I too, I must say suffer from what is commonly known as "writers dilemma". I receive numerous enquiries a...

Writers Dilemma

Even as I write this I too, I must say suffer from what is commonly known as "writers dilemma".

I receive numerous enquiries as to suggest "budding writers" how to pen down their thoughts. They say they have very good ideas but don't know how to start start writing those thoughts. And I say wow you said it.

I remember some 3 years ago when I started writing. Well to be technically correct I used to write since childhood. I was an extrovert child packaged in an introvert casing, as you may say. So my shortcoming of not able to vocally express was compensated by my writings. Though I would never publish them... ( I told you na I was an introvert blockage ).

As time passed I became more and more confident and one day I thought why not express myself to the world. so I started writing in social media... ( thanks to social media, though with all their defects, they have the pluses.)

To cut short.. I started writing though not professionally. Just penned down my thoughts and slowly gained recognition. People started liking and my confidence grew.

Them can the turning point. My decision to write a book.

Now now ... writing a few lines and writing a book ... both are poles apart...!!!

I had great ideas ... I would sit for hours and would become more and more excited with my thoughts ... my thoughts became my obsessions ... but when it came down to penning down I just couldn't figure out where to start...!!!

But I had to start somewhere ... so I did the most obvious thing to do.... and that was ..... to start writing....!!!

Most of the "to be writers" die a premature death just because instead of having the end in mind they are paralyzed by the process...!!!

I read somewhere " Too much analysis leads to paralysis."

And I made up my mind to act rather than analyse...

I just wrote what I thought without bothering about whether it would make any sequence or sense... if I was sad I would write the sad part.. if I was happy I would write that part... and so on....!!!

And as I got involved in the process my momentum gained and the things became more and more clear and structured.... And what surprised me was new ideas poured in which I had never thought of when I started to write...!!!

I had started with the idea to write say 50 pages but as my passion grew... I found myself writing 100's of pages and by the time I had written 248 pages I had to actually stop writing... not because I was short of ideas, but because one, I didn't want to end up writing a saga... and secondly, I thought readers would get bored to death.... ( to my surprise I got reviews that once they started they didn't want to leave without completing )

Now why am I sharing this to all readers... only to motivate them to JUST START WRITING WITHOUT ANALYZING...

And I promise you once you do that you would soon find yourself getting more and more involved....

It is called " Being in the Zone "

Submit yourself to the "Zone" and "Zone" will take care of the rest....!!!

I still remember once I gave my book to one personality and he just went skipped through the pages and congratulated me. When I asked that why congratulate before reading he said .... my congratulation is for completing the book and getting it published... he himself had started writing the book but not completed it.....!!!

Just to summarize.....

Every one has a story to tell.... but few have the conviction to tell ... and lesser few to actually pen down.... it doesn't matter who will read or who will not.... for every writer there is a reader....!!!

If you have written a book then you are among-st 0.01% of worlds population and more so when you write your second book you would be 0.001% ...!!!

Don't you think its worth the effort...!!!

And the very thought gives me goosebumps... To live till eternity even when you die ... in the form of your writings......!!!

That's how "Count your Chicken Before You Lay Them" started and many more to come....!!!

Note: I am now facing writers dilemma for my second book and as I write this I am motivating myself to be in the 0.001%......!!!

Happy Writing......................................