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How To Become A Good Writer by lovingsoul(m): 3:04pm On Mar 06, 2013
1---- Have confidence in yourself, know that there is something inside your heart that everyone would love to feel and enjoy, build that confidence but do not be over confident. Always say to yourself "I CAN DO IT"!!!! Even when others say you can not, lay this foundation in your subconscious mind, live and breathe under this mentality, you have to be mentally guarded, convince the rest of the world that you have something to give.

2---Learn to use your inner eyes which is your mind, draw pictures with it, let some imaginations flow from there, try to write with your mind before you write with your pen. Inside the mind lies loads of powerful and life touching messages and information, so learn to make judicious use of your mind, you need to start doing some deep thinking, most of us do not think, we only wish and pray for miracles, just 2hours of deep thought could produce ideas and information that can rule the world, so start thinking now!!!

3---You have to start reading books, I mean very intensive reading. This is the process where you feed and deposit huge amount of ideas and information into your mind and brain. Take it as a responsibility to read at least 5-10 powerful and mind provoking books in a month. Every book that will add something new to what you already have is worth reading, the more you read, the deeper your well of knowledge gets and the deeper your well of knowledge, the easier it is to dish out useful and resourceful information or ideas.

4----Do not be averse to criticism, learn to take every criticism with some positivity, let people criticize what you write, show them and make them know how much you appreciate and want their criticism, the more criticism you get the better you become, also learn to separate constructive criticism from a destructive one.

5---You must be vast and diverse in your reading, never restrict your reading to a particular topic, idea or concept, try to read in a wider and more objective way, all information is worth getting, you never know how useful that information can be. You are in science is that why you can not read something on history, politics, religion, you are a christian that does not mean you can not read something on Islam, all this helps you when you write, it liberalizes your ideas, broadens your imagination and makes your opinion as objective as possible.

6---Be creative, add some flavour and fun in your writing, let that creative spirit come out, do it in a different way, write on what makes you comfortable, learn to express yourself when writing, never hold anything back.

7--Do not try to impress anybody, just be as simple as possible, avoid ambiguity, say it as it feels inside your heart, it's better that way, so keep writing.

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