{"id":925,"date":"2023-08-25T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2023-08-26T07:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:13:48","slug":"the-riot-act-of-writing-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/the-riot-act-of-writing-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing It Right !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">How do you get it write?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable \u2018<strong>I<\/strong>.\u201d \u2014<strong>Joan Didion, \u201cOn Keeping a Notebook<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing said\u00a0<b>Benjamin Franklin<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #202124;\">Write something.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There is no greater agony than an untold story inside you.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #202124;\"> Write something. Then improve it. Then write something else.Then repeat it till such time you have enough matter to constitute a post. Then ship it out. Rinse and repeat the process. Throw caution to the winds and to things like &#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0writer&#8217;s block &#8216;.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">On the freeway of consistent bad writing is the convenience store that comes up- that of good writing<\/span>. Fuel up there.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And as you do that, you will simplify, clarify and amplify your thinking and strengthen your stories.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When you are writing, you are looking at your own freedom.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Nothing more empowering than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WORDS-Emailer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please yourself. Pick up a few words. Stick your neck out and string them like a necklace.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Open with a question and don&#8217;t answer till the end.<\/em><\/span> The world will wait for an answer..then read out the riot&#8230;write act. Rinse..repeat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From writer&#8217;s block to writer&#8217;s blog. The<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0Separation Anxiety<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> that we have in our heads is only a myth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8221; The first draft is you just telling yourself the story &#8220;- <strong>Terry Pratchett<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Did you get it write?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">ENDS<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How do you get it write? &nbsp; &#8221; Our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable \u2018I.\u201d \u2014Joan Didion, \u201cOn Keeping a Notebook\u00a0\u201c. &nbsp; Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/the-riot-act-of-writing-it-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing It Right !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1904,1652,1902,1399,1906,1908,1287,1907,1903,796,841,1901,1899,569,1900,1905,1898,1029],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agony","tag-answer","tag-bad-writing","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-blog","tag-convenience-store","tag-freedom","tag-freeway","tag-good-writing","tag-joan-didion","tag-process","tag-question","tag-separation-anxiety","tag-story","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-thinking","tag-writers-block","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}