An
understanding of your personality and true worth fuels your deepest capacities.
It’s impossible to create knock-out write ups when you have not defined
yourself for yourself. This is the concrete stuff you will present in your
writing.
Write
with every intention to communicate everything you stand for. Your art is the
expression of the inner character. Therefore, to improve your flow, define a
personal writing style and straddle your craft along that line.
For an artist to thrive in his work, he’s got to
know who he is.
Where
are you coming from?
What
have you been through? Going through right now?
What
is your outlook on life?
What
is your mind state?
The
slums/mansion you grew up in could be a ledge on which you project your trade. Again,
it all boils down to your frame of mind. Look really deep within and touch
things. Touch the individual waiting to be reaped like the wheat of harvest. This
is where your experiences come into the picture. You’re never fully dressed for
the job without one.
Define
what you stand for. Study your history.
What
do you believe about yourself, the world and its future?
What
drives you? Motivates you?
Visualize
and then congeal the things that describe you in your writing.
Do you stand for justice in the
legal system;
Free education for ghetto
children;
Better days on the streets;
An end to incessant domestic
violence;
Waking the world up to the evil
it willfully shuts its eyes to;
The love in a family or in
relationships?
It’s
time to take a stand so you can make a statement.
A
lot of writers have sleepless nights trying to find a subject to write about. You
might find your interest pushes you towards reading the papers. Don’t fight it.
In
formulating a personal writing style, try to imagine the ideal life you want
for yourself and the price you are willing to pay to possess it–What really matters to you?
What
would you be doing with your life a few years from now?
How
seriously do you want people to take you and the message of your stories?
If
you make the decision to place your craft above every other thing, to make
writing your medium for communicating to the world, your channel for expressing
yourself, for changing lives, then what atcha
write and the way atcha write it will
come to you as naturally as sleep comes to a man trapped under the spell of Morpheus.
Your
experience is the connect between becoming a fulfilled writer and discovery of
a unique, personal and relevant writing style. Focus on these things, keep
going over them in your mind, let them place you in your niche.
Keep
your pen bleeding!
Akpan
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