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Writing is a Discipline
   
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How To Profit From Fear And Greed
reed and fear may be just a couple of the more unsightly
blemishes on the underbelly of the human psyche. But they're
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If a writer considers writing to be a task, he/she is doomed to failure. Since it cannot be a task, then what is it? It is a discipline. What does that mean?reed and fear may be just a couple of the more unsightly
blemishes on the underbelly of the human psyche. But they're
also two of the .....
A discipline means development, and that means preparation. So a writer must prepare to be a writer and that means study, study of the English languageits words, its structure, its syntax, and its style. That is the groundwork that a writer must follow all his/her life. This implies training.
Where does a writer obtain this training? From many sourcesworkshops, seminars, courses, reading, and connection with other writers. Every day becomes part of a writers training. Every moment adds to the writers store of information, ideas, topics, and themes.
Discipline means the cultivation of input, of broadening the writers outlook, of developing something to say, and of creating a way to say it. Without effort there can be no outputat least no yield that readers are willing to add to their store of thoughts and ideas.
Discipline means practice. A writer is not a writer until he or she puts words to paper or screen and this is the application of the training that preceded it. All of this implies a love of the art, and if that is not present, then it becomes a task, and writing can never succeed as a chore.
Revising Your Manuscript: Fourteen Questions To Ask Yourself
1) Can you summarize the story in about a sentence or two?
Example:
Three daughters try desperately to save their father from his conniving new wife.
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Discipline means exercise, which means action, which means the act of writing, of sitting before the blank page or screen and filling it. This is the time of labor, but it must be a labor of love, a desire, a need, an addiction, in fact, to expressing oneself. Of course, this action can take many formspoetry, essays, short stories, articles, novels, and non-fiction booksbut it must be treasured and desired for its own sake before it is presented to readers.1) Can you summarize the story in about a sentence or two?
Example:
Three daughters try desperately to save their father from his conniving new wife.
A cop has to fight a losing .....
Without discipline, writing becomes nothing more that a job to be completed leaving the author unfulfilled and wanting.
Charles O. Goulet has a BA in English literature. He has published several novels that are available from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and many other online book stores.
His website is: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/go1c