Why I Want To Write?
Writing is my passion. I simply love to write. Playing with words gives me immense satisfaction. I always find myself driven by an infinite desire to give expression to thoughts. Whenever I lay my hands on something to read, more than the content, I measure its worth by its language, the use of words and the command with which it was written. To me, the more one played with words, the more joy I derived reading it. I like to construct lengthy & complex sentences which has led my friends often to remark that they needed second reading to comprehend them. Of course, the primary aim of writing would be to hold the attention of the reader. Make him read every bit of what I have written. Nothing gives you greater joy than when you hear the readers say that they liked a particular section very much which in itself is proof that they have gone through every bit of it. When you make someone read the whole thing and not just in bits, that is when you really feel that it was worth the efforts. You only read something when you find it interesting – ‘content’ with its contents, or the flow of language, the powerful expressions. The quality of writing can be measured by the degree of ease with which the reader is able to immediately visualize the circumstances or the description. If you are describing a horror sequence in a rainy forest, the reader must feel the sequence or the picture as though he himself is experiencing it, making him feel as if he is watching it before his eyes – when in fact he is reading it. If you are able to create such an effect on the reader, then you have made it. I have read ‘The Godfather’, by Mario Puzo. The description of sequences & characters was amazingly awesome for it made you feel them. And when I saw the movie, it was even more stunning, because, the pictures I visualized while reading the novel were ‘picture-perfect’ in movie as well!! Capturing reader’s attention throughout & make him feel the atmosphere are the real challenges for a writer. This in fact is my ambition.
Writing is my passion. I simply love to write. Playing with words gives me immense satisfaction. I always find myself driven by an infinite desire to give expression to thoughts. Whenever I lay my hands on something to read, more than the content, I measure its worth by its language, the use of words and the command with which it was written. To me, the more one played with words, the more joy I derived reading it. I like to construct lengthy & complex sentences which has led my friends often to remark that they needed second reading to comprehend them. Of course, the primary aim of writing would be to hold the attention of the reader. Make him read every bit of what I have written. Nothing gives you greater joy than when you hear the readers say that they liked a particular section very much which in itself is proof that they have gone through every bit of it. When you make someone read the whole thing and not just in bits, that is when you really feel that it was worth the efforts. You only read something when you find it interesting – ‘content’ with its contents, or the flow of language, the powerful expressions. The quality of writing can be measured by the degree of ease with which the reader is able to immediately visualize the circumstances or the description. If you are describing a horror sequence in a rainy forest, the reader must feel the sequence or the picture as though he himself is experiencing it, making him feel as if he is watching it before his eyes – when in fact he is reading it. If you are able to create such an effect on the reader, then you have made it. I have read ‘The Godfather’, by Mario Puzo. The description of sequences & characters was amazingly awesome for it made you feel them. And when I saw the movie, it was even more stunning, because, the pictures I visualized while reading the novel were ‘picture-perfect’ in movie as well!! Capturing reader’s attention throughout & make him feel the atmosphere are the real challenges for a writer. This in fact is my ambition.
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