Once a friend/colleague of mine asked me
which was more difficult to do: writing of books or a hard physical work like
digging of channels for example. It was a joke question, of course but to his
great surprise, my answer was the opposite of what he expected. Actually, I
didn’t claim to write a good story should always be harder than any tiring
physical work. Yet, I explained that oftentimes it requires much more effort,
tension (physical and mental) and work than any other activity. Well, I guess
not all the authors would agree with me, for a lot of them to write a good
story one needs just a good imagination. Quite the contrary, I would reply, I
mentioned about that in some other posts/notes of mine but it’s too important
not to mention it again. Writing requires not only good writing skills,
sufficient ability to imagine incredible creatures, events, etc, but also a lot
of knowledge and experience for many of the written stories to become more
real, interesting and breath-taking. I also explained the best ways to write
good manuscripts are usually the hardest, as they include a lot of searching
for information too, a writer shouldn’t claim his/her writing is good enough if
it’s not preceded by a lot of experience or strivings to learn and live through
all the tricks, details, even horrors and happy moments in a story. As the most
important in writing is the good final result, not finding the most beautiful
and comfortable place to write, or using the best device to write down a
writer’s thoughts, namely a PC, laptop, or tablet. Usually, good final plots,
stories require also some other efforts, not less important than gathering of
information, like experiencing the characters’ all feelings, deeds, emotions to
describe the heroes or villains’ inner world in the proper way, not just the
gripping adventures and events. There’s a basic rule in writing I try to follow
after I wrote my first Tale Of The Rock Pieces, to write a really good
manuscript a writer must become a part of the story, as the story must become a
part of a writer too. Then, a book would become a part of reality and could
fulfill its most important purpose, to inspire readers, help them overcome
different situations or improve their health, mentality, etc, more than
entertain and relieve from our daily cares and mishaps…
I know there probably are as many opinions for
this topic as there are writers, but I hope every writer would agree with me at
least to some extent?
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