THE AGONY OF BEING A WRITER.

 

THE AGONY OF BEING A WRITER.

 

Writing is usually the last language skill we all learn. In early primary the first skill we obtain is listening followed by speaking, reading and finally putting it down on paper by writing.

A writer can write for personal enjoyment or use, or for an audience which can be known or unknown. Blogging to be precise is an example of writing to an unknown audience, meaning, the blogger will not know who will read an article and how the article will be perceived.

All that can be done is try as much as one can, to ensure that whatever you write is substantial, informative and will be of help to your readers.

Writing can be done from a wide perspective, that is personal experiences, social issues, politics, religion, upcoming events, own imaginations and many more others. And to make certain that your readers get the best is to ensure you are well armed with facts and are knowledgeable about what you want to write about.

As easy as it may sound, writing comes with its own pressures;

Convincing yourself that you have content worth reading, believing that someone would care enough to open your work and try to understand your writing and not be lost in your language. Believing that your story would benefit another soul which can relate through your work.

 Imagine writers as bellmen, trying to inform people of the happenings around them. Most of us bellmen spend hours on end figuring out the right words to make our readers stop, just for a second and consider the article before them.

Our hope is someday, somebody will bother to question our writing, not criticize, but tell us how something could be done better. This could be a plus on our side since that individual took time to read our article and saw the worth to commend us or correct us where he\she felt we were wrong. Our wish is that at some point our articles shall spark debates on humanity. That a reader might reach out to us to get clarity for that one line they cannot seem to forget.

The pain of typing yet resisting the publish button, many bloggers know this, because we feel that there is a missing piece. A piece we might not get hold of in a day, weeks even months. Forcing us to go back, experience, research and place our puzzles in order.

Spending hours staring at the cursor, knowing your audience wants you to deliver yet lacking the right words that could better explain your story.  Each line, each paragraph is filled with the uncertainty of how it shall be perceived.

When you finally decide to publish your work, non-writers will see these epistle of words, unaware of what the writer went through to ensure that the article came to be, unknowing of our silent expectation that the work would make someone question something before it is too late.

Some of us write for glory, some about glory. But we all write to leave earth better educated than we read about it.

As once said, writing is hard sometimes. The craft is challenging, the pressures of publication and promotion daunting. The best thing we can do is to get out of our way, and remember that writing is our passion, our play, our refuge and our privilege.

BY SUSAN DORICE KWEGAH

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