Free learning e-Course : Want to become a Writer?(Part 9)

Chapter I : Basics
Writers are not born (continued)
Any one can become a Writer, if only they cultivate the skill of writing – that is expressing the thoughts into words. This becomes possible by clubbing your observation with imagination. Let us see an example. You witness a road accident. You observe every detail about the accident keenly and store in your mind.
Now supposing you are to write a news story, to be published on a news paper (whether online or offline) about the accident above, your observation helps in providing the exact details to the reader. News reporting is one among the varieties of writing skills (we are going to see later in this e-course). You could have seen the news about the same accident gets published in different news papers in different ways. All of them can never change the abstract details of the accident that has already happened.
How come then different versions are being published? Think about it. You will understand that it is the imagination of the particular reporter, who contributed that news story, makes all the difference. So you can see very well, if observation is clubbed with imagination, the same news can be projected in multi-various ways to the outside world.
The same example equally applies in other branches of writing skills as well. A story writer uses imagination to describe vividly all the details of real-life accident in a fiction; a drama writer uses the details for dialogue; and an article writer can make use of it whenever and wherever wanted. The opportunities are endless.
So now you are able to understand that if you have the writer’s mental attitude, you start to observe everything around you. Daily occurrences, habits of people, mentality of persons you come across, books you read, chat with friends – every other thing you name.
The transformation in you takes place slowly, gradually but definitely, when you observe with a keen attention and switch on your imagination. Talking of observation it leads inevitably to paying “attention”. Unfortunately this is what is lacking in a huge number of persons among us.
A friend will be talking to you something important, but your mind will be somewhere else. You fail to pay attention to what the friend is telling and thus lose observation power. You will be reading a book, which tells you the ways and means of improving yourself. If your mind is wavering – only eyes will be reading the lines printed and you will lose very useful information by not paying “attention”
More about paying attention later.