IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT!

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A WRITER?

 

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb

Hello, everybody! 

So, we have met and there is a point to put a bit of feeling into our meeting. It’s very non-English approach, but I just can’t help it: with all your fun and zest, passionately and without any fear, go ahead!

I would not burden you with problems: you don’t need mine, but I’ll take care of yours – the truth is of only one, concerning your fluency in English. Don’t be anymore this frightful person so much afraid to seem foolish when speaking English. Yes, sometimes it is going to be hard – you cannot be becoming better without working. So, we’ll keep up the good work even if it would ask us for some ‘midnight oil’ to be burnt…

We’ll put our priorities right: let me say I count myself lucky that your way coincided with mine… At last I’ve encountered somebody who could share my passion to the ‘belles-lettres’ subject. To tell the truth, last 20 years my main interest lay in the domain of ‘mechanics of writing’. Is this truth really sad one? NO, my friends, it says that, I am not old, but mature… I won’t boast, but only the best, and really worth of people attention books can give me that feeling of joy and excitement which had led me all through the life.

Suppose, it had brought a bit of interest into your life – then do not stop yourself getting excited… There are no rules in writing – but there are some unconscious principles instead – the principles of freedom and beauty. It will not be the easy way: you’ll begin to work harder than you had ever before.

As this is not our first meeting, I do hope you are feeling more confidently now.

Now, that you love your brain more, the next exercise is to build on this your ‘new-found land’ confidence.

Every writer needs one or two good tricks upon a sleeve. And here are some of them:

  • A good warming-up exercise for you:  we’ll take a sheet of paper and a pen, then we’ll prepare a list of your new-learned words, phrasal verbs or proverbs, quotations and wise people thoughts. Let it be 15 – NOW try to write something coherent and interesting using ALL of them in your essay, converting them as you wish in your own personal style. And DO remember: ‘Learning is not a spectator sport.’ – D. Blocher. You really need to know what you are doing, and what works the best at writing an essay. Just Do It!     
  • A Little Brain-Storm:Now again you’ve got 5 minutes:Take a theme; write down a heading (it’s a great deal for your success!); make again a list where input all the associations: your own thoughts, big ideas and slight hints of your Intuition, words, verbs, expressions etc…Your time is out. You can relax, drink your cup of coffee. Then read the list, think it over, and in case of need – put it aside, till tomorrow morning – sleep it over, making your goals crystal clear, or the other way round -  burn your candle all through the night – it’s up to you…
  • Now then – a Little Bang!

My understanding is that you want to do something nowadays in the field of writing – a thing completely New – let us say a contemporary Internet-essay. We All here are in some or other way Internet-people. When making a Search in the line we usually are reading articles – watching Adds – looking for words or notions – watching games – films – news – cartoons and pictures – then writing songs or scripts or poems/translations – and so on and so on… Yes, of course, it’s our leisure time, we can idle unconsciously while our mind is accepting the info and working, and working hard…That is how we receive this “being in mood”, where gist some traits of our personality character as well as in time – the character itself…  Could you… Yes, you easily could to compose a recitation of your net-itinerary – and retell some story, and give your opinion, and transmit your attitude… Using different signs and colorful pictographs and underlining and circling striking out, writing words – logos – slogans, drawing the pictures, inserting audio- and video-files passages… How to represent it? Through video-films or presentations, but you need to bear in mind – it cannot be done in the usual format of a paper work – it’s good only in the Netty-format! Isn’t it a BEAUTY?!

This is Take & Use!!!

Today’s Task:

It is not about writing an essay – but it is a rather helpful exercise,

Because

 We All Are Striving for Fluency!

It will help you to speak spontaneously:

Choose a word, which is used not too much and often, but has a lot of definitions (6-8 or more – till 15). Write a list of different meanings of the word, Google them all, read some odd materials, give your own thoughts –

And NOW – retell all you know about Every! Item!

This work is for an Hour or so – I ask you no more than that! Just not to be boring!

And of course, it’s your exercise for every day – in time it will be easier, only the beginning is rather cumbersome!

Ah, and what about essays? There are two ways:

  • Choose your best time and place for writing – and GO AHEAD! There’s a beautiful rule for beginners:
  • 2-MINUTES RULE – If you are hesitating to begin – do it for only 2 minutes – just say to your Brain – My Dear, we’ll be doing this only two minutes, not more, promise… AH, YOU ARE A LAIR!
  • Or you can write on you knee on the bus stop or elsewhere – but with Lady Inspiration!