| Writing is a skill anyone can develop. Writers are | | | | previous crop, without a trace. Dig and till the land |
| not born but created. All the writers you know | | | | hard, to make it ready for the new seed to get |
| have come only this way. For becoming a Writer | | | | into it and grow healthy. This is what you are |
| yourself, you have to have the will; inclination; and | | | | doing now - preparing the mind as clean as a |
| passion. Set your mind as a positive one. Imagine | | | | slate, to let in new thoughts afresh to stick and |
| that you are a Writer and earnestly believe that | | | | grow. |
| you can become a Writer.The mental exercises | | | | Similarly for a brick and mortar building, a strong |
| are important. Why it is necessary to go into the | | | | foundation is laid. After digging deep into the |
| mental exercises you have been learning? Well - | | | | ground, hard stones are laid first, to withstand the |
| you are going to transform yourself into a Writer- | | | | construction for years. If you learn a skill, totally |
| from whatever roles you have been playing, | | | | new to you, it will never go from you. For |
| outwardly in the real world so far. | | | | example, if you learn the skill of riding a bicycle, |
| You may be a student, a professional, a | | | | when you were eight or ten years old, even at |
| businessman or woman, an employee, a father, | | | | the age of sixty-plus, you can ride a bicycle, |
| mother, brother, sister or whatever. These are | | | | whenever you get one - no matter what. |
| identifications of you in the society. Now - are you | | | | Remember when you first sat on the cycle seat |
| identified as a Writer? I am sure you are not - | | | | to learn - your mentor was giving so many |
| otherwise you will not be reading this. | | | | instructions. Sit upright; look straight; don't bend |
| For transforming yourself - I mean the inner-self - | | | | your back; hold the handle bars tightly; this and |
| into a Writer, you are required to see things you | | | | that. You followed them earnestly - each one of |
| have all along been seeing hitherto, differently. So | | | | them. When you learned the balancing and were |
| it becomes imperative to prepare yourself to | | | | on your own - how elated you were on riding the |
| become a Writer. You are going to construct a | | | | cycle, feeling on the top of the world? (It is a |
| skill - a skill all these years you were not having, | | | | different matter altogether when you were a |
| but aspiring for, to become a Writer. | | | | regular cyclist, not following any of the |
| You must have watched farmers preparing the | | | | first-day-cautions and fly). |
| ground for sowing anything. They first clean up | | | | This is what you are going to do when you are a |
| everything from the field, connected with the | | | | full-fledged Writer.. |