Dear Fellow Writer surfing the web:
There are countless writing sites in the internet and you
can just get dizzy choosing which site you'd visit to really help you be a good writer. I was in a situation like you.I wanted to improve my writing and be inspired. I wanted to go to a site where I would never experience being shortchanged. Thank God, I found a really good writer and teacher. Rob Parnell, you'll find out in the website below, is a great teacher; a writer's friend. He doesn't make you feel you are a kindergarten in the field of writing. Obviously, he could have charged more for any of the courses he teaches. But he's a writer's friend more than a writer earning from his writing and teaching. Take it from me. I got a lot of writing tips and push to write again from the first online course I took under him. In fact, I am saving for another online course with him. I'm interested in the fiction writing course with
him "closely" mentoring the me throughout the learning process.
If you're looking for a teacher who you think you can rely on, you can trust,who will walk with you as you struggle with your writing and who will treat you with respect as a fellow writer, here's the site to visit:
http://easywaytowrite.com/index.html
Sunday, February 10, 2008
A Very Good Writing Group
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Meaning of Life
I didn't have any plans of writing an autobiography. That's only for the VIPs in society, I thought. In my more than four decades of reading autobiographies, and biographical novels too, it never occurred to me to place myself along with "people who matter" in society. In the course of my musings, I remembered the thoughts of Eckhart Tolle, a spiritual teacher who was recently introduced to me by a friend. A New Earth, Awakening to Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle's bestselling book given to me by a friend, taught me how to deal with the inner voices or sometimes I wish to call them inner demons that steal my peace of mind.
In my musings about autobiographies and biographies being for VIPs only, I realized that the concept of perceiving myself as less than a VIP is a kind of self-flagellation. By saying this, I don't mean I should steal the limelight being a person as important as the Queen of England. By looking at my real worth and meaning as a human being and therefore feeling just as important as the very important persons in society, I undo layers of false perceptions and concepts about my presence in this planet. In my musings I remembered the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. You may want to visit this site:http://www.eckharttolle.com/
And for help on how to write a sparkling autobiography, you may like to visit this site:http://www.easywaytowrite.com/
Thursday, January 31, 2008
I learned that you can also earn from writing
I have always wanted to write since high school but I always heard from writers that if I didn't like to starve I should rethink my options.
I don't understand though that a sector of society who has a gift of language, dreams and creativity can starve. I kept asking myself where the problem was. The answer: writing has been associated with literary writing time and time again. The technical writer, the crossword puzzle creator, the greeting card writer, the manual and brochure writer, etc. - all these have not been viewed as writing. The problem lied in the perspective of both writers and readers. This view has to end, at least on my side as a writer interested in both practical and ideal things.
