Writing

Agatha Christie says that its important to be able to write within a

certain word limit. If ur writing a detective story u can't make it of

the length of a short story. The reader then will cheated having paid

a certain amount of money to buy it.

I have never been good at keeping within limits to write anything. I

find it stifling. Ofcourse she does tell one to go ahead an write

whatever one feels like if one is only interested in writing for its

own sake and not in seeing ones works published. It is a choice one

has to make. May be that is the reason i don't write. Well its not

like i don't want to be published. Its just that i haven't written

anything worthwhile as yet. I'm too immature a writer. I'm most

certainly far from being a professional. There that's an honest

confession.

In the course of writing this post i have had a strange experience. I

failed to save the first. Then the second. However i've hammered on.

Only difference is i have writtiem something absolutely different from

what i had set out to write. Proves how difficult it is to get the

perfect result.

Clearly there is more to writing than just knowing ur words or reading

tonnes of books. In her autobiography she doesn't really discuss her

creative process which is what attracts of to authors autobiographies

in the first place but very rarely would u find one of them writin

about their inner thoughts. May be cause they don't want to tell or

way be it's something that can't be told.

There is always a good deal of speculation about whether we can aspire

to become writers or is it like other artistic things a natural talent

that might skip ur genome. But in the modern world Christie wouldn't

have had much trouble writing or finding a fan following what with all

the blogging. May that's the reason there are so many new writers

attempting to write so many new books and so many new stories being

told. Because all of us have some story to tell don't we?

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