Since as long as I could remember I have always loved writing, always trying to be that god who got people to read his creativity to others, which brought happiness however temporary or permanent.

From writing on pieces of paper torn out of my primary school books to writing on a laptop while covered in blanket shielding myself from the cold windy night/morning. During my primary school days I used to write my own stories and they were beautiful with an ease of simplicity, written on beautifully cut off sugar papers designed with markers and crayons of all the colors of the rainbow.  To me they were spell bounding and Nobel worthy but to some others, they were just a child’s replica of “Chike and the River” (written by the great Chinua Achebe), riddle with grammatical errors, punctuation errors, wrong syntax , wrong word play and the most disheartening of all lack of encouragement from the readers, the adults, the so called professionals.

To write is not rocket science but that doesn’t makes it an easy thing to do, it just makes it simply not rocket science. A writer is like a prophet, they see a clear vision of what they want to write in their heads but putting it down on paper is the greatest difficulty of all, the vision might be crystal clear but making it relatable, understandable, precise and specific poses a great challenge.  Because you might be cut up in the moment and go on blabbing, but encouraging someone who is trying to write will you a long way.  It might not be perfect at first, just keep in mind that nothing is ever truly prefect. As far as you get an idea of what the writer is trying to say, that is a step further to perfection.

Writing is like preparing a cup of tea with two cubes of sugar and no milk, to prepare one, you first of all need to imagine what you want to create and what you need to go about it, and your weapons needed to create your delicious tea are, a cup, tea bag, hot/cold water, two cubes of sugar and remember you said no milk. After a careful consideration of quantities to use and mixology, with your eye, nose, ears, brain and mouth as your measuring instruments, a cup of tea with two cubes of sugar and no milk is born.    Now, what makes writing tricky is that you might decide to talk about where the tea bag and how it came from something-something century and then unknowingly to you, you embark on an historic adventure on something totally different on what you first set out to do.

 

HOW TO WRITE: write for the love of writing

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