Dear Ada,
I am writing here to reply the following post from you:
Charlie:
There is a big problem for me. When I want to write something, I feel nothing to write down. But before this I have had so many things in my mind.I feel very depressed!Can you give me some advises?Thank you!
Ada
To be honest, I very often share the same problem with you when trying to settle down for a good outpour of my thoughts and crazy ideas but suddenly finding myself not able to express them by writing down anything with meaning.
I think most of the beginner writers like us tend to feel that what is most difficult in writing is getting started to write rather than completing it. A good beginning is always half the battle; the beginning is the key. Hence, many friends here in our forum are more likely to post a brief “note” which leaves the reader with a kind of stop-short feeling instead of providing him or her with more interesting stuff for a good read. This is not totally because of their limited vocabulary, nor their seemingly colorless life content but their lack of boldness for a head-on challenge to explore and never give up easy.
There are quite a number of people who love reading, speaking, listening, but comparatively, not many would willingly engage themselves into writing. Therefore we seldom see good writers among us. But excellent readers, speakers and listeners are never rare. Why so? To my mind, it is because writing is a rather creative activity. It is sometimes even a “torture” to your brain. You have to rack it until you hit on the right words, which could possibly serve as a fuse to the explosion of your thinking. It may at first take you very long to nail down only a few lines, but that has a short life span of just several months against your persistence in writing. Like how we learned to ride a bicycle when younger, the more we practiced riding, the less we would be afraid of falling off and the sooner we would able to ride and the more we would love to ride. It hurt at the start and after awhile we got used to it. The process of getting into a long-term mood for writing is a journey of exploration with all kinds of predictable frustrations and unexpected exciting findings. We all have to go through it before making anything shine in our writing.
To most of us, during our writing, there would sometimes suddenly be a moment of ideas running out and the torment of creativeness not within our reach. In such a case, I would probably give myself the following three options: First, take a rest or start a interesting chat or do something relaxing and after a while go back to write; second, read through the articles posted by other friends in our forum and try to draw some inspiration from them; third, go to the dictionary and do some random reading of a few entries in it. Maybe one of them is just the word I have been looking for for a restart of my writing. Do not forget, we also have to learn to compromise with our mind.
For me, to write and keep writing is more like exploring within myself, meanwhile reaching out for others. So I think when occasionally our writing goes nowhere or gets boring, that might mean we have been too concerned with our own issues and stories. Try to write something for others. It could be for a relative, a friend, our pets or even our enemies!
Above all, making writing fun is always the best policy.
Best wishes, CharlietheAprilfool
[此贴子已经被作者于2005-5-19 20:15:56编辑过]
