A
Writer's Introduction
As
Albert Einstein once said: “The more I learn, the more I realize
how much I don't know”. This is true on many situations in life,
and on being a writer, there is no difference. This fact is even
reflected on professional writers, who expose their work to multiple
revisions before having their writings published.
This extensive
process is done in order to produce a
well-written paragraph. Thus, the importance for people interested in
writing, to know about the most relevant aspects of the writing
process. A process that, although extensive
and broad, can be summarized recipelike in three steps:
an overall understanding of grammar, a clear conceptualization of
preparation, and practice, practice, practice.
The
first step to become a writer is to master the use of grammar.
Grammar is used in every kind of speech. People
chose words over others, within a special structure, in
order to communicate an idea. If the
correct structure is used when expressing an idea, then that idea
will e understood in a much clearer manner. There lies the importance
of grammar. Usually, people are well understood in spoken speech, but
when they are writing it gets complicated. What does this process a
lot harder is that, in writing speech, grammar goes together with
punctuation and spelling, and unless those three aspects are well
e,ployed, clear ideas will not be delivered. Planning
and outlining is what follows after having
studied grammar.
The
second step to become a writer is to know about planning, this is how
to gather ideas, how to organize material, and how to draw an
outline. Gathering ideas is the easiest process: it starts by jotting
down every idea that you want to address in the composition, so
virtually anything that comes to mind will be useful in some way or
another. After that, the material is organized. This is done by
forming groups with the ideas previously written. Once the material
is organized, it is possible to draw an outline. The outline is the
skeleton in a composition: with a strong foundation, a composition
can be easily completed. As this is the base for what follows, is
strongly recommended to be as diligent as possible in this step.
The
final step to become a writer is to start building a composition
applying
everything learned. Having an outline
already written may be lead into believing that the composition is
almost complete, nevertheless, is in the building process where most
errors are made. Keeping track of every single detail while writing
will save a great deal of time since, sometimes, what it would look
to be an insignificant error can cause bigger problems in the long
run. Overall, practice is the only path to perfecting composition
over composition.
The
whole writing process can be expressed very succinctly in just two
words: study and practice. Not only does writers need to do research
before hand, but
also to apply concepts learned into their scripts. Thus, illustrating
the difficulties of being a writer from two different angles. This
should not keep anyone from writing, since th formula planted in
introduction covers every part of the writing process in a very
pragmatical manner.
