The Art Of Writing

W e all are writers in our heart. Deep within us, we all have stories to tell. Growing up, through this roller-coaster of life, we have had so much ups and downs that there are hundreds and hundreds of memories buried within us. All we need to do is dig out those memories, pick up a pen and write it out. You see, words are like X-rays if you use them properly. They can go through anything. Most of us write from our brains and that makes the situation dire. We try writing what we think and even though that works, most of the time we just end with writers block. Write from your heart not from your brain. You are not thinking, you are expressing yourself.

Robert Frost rightly says “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

We humans are not a structured module programmed to listen what others say and be quite about it. We aren’t machines that are programmed to sustain our life through this earth and vanish away when our bodies are done for. We are human beings and we have emotions. We cry when we are hurt, we laugh when we are happy. We fall in love, we make friends, we gain enemies, we become jealous and we become cheerful all at the blink of an eye. As great novelist Sylvia Plath wrote “Let me live, love and say it in good sentences.” We all are familiar with the living and loving in life. Let’s now write about it.

I think we all are born a writer. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story within you. Everything in this world is writable. From the emotional hell you went through to the paradise you have been, everything is explicable. We just have to have guts to write it. And if we are true to ourselves, words will pour like rain. One of my admirable person writes, “Writing is never dull but never easy.”

But the most important things in life are the hardest to tell. We can only assume the reader to understand what we feel. Words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in our head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. And then comes the worst enemy of all: self-doubt. We tend to doubt our imagination and creativity because of the judgment the world makes. Your stories are part of your life. And it doesn’t matter if others can’t seem to fit it in theirs.

So write to your heart’s content. Start that symphony of words to create a world out of your imagination. As Louis L’Amour said “Start writing, no matter what. The water doesn’t flow until the faucet is turned on”. And remember, there is no perfect ending to your story. It’s only matter of knowing when to stop.

Zerone is an undergrad publication at I.O.E, Pulchowk focusing on People (their creative side, their thoughts, their lives) and Technology (the new, the old, everything).

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