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SO, YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER

You want to be a writer, eh? Okay, then; what will you need to do? Here are 12 ways in which you can begin: 1 st   and foremost, a writer must understand his/her own language.   (We’ll go into greater depth on this subject and those that follow in subsequent blog posts.) A writer must understand that writing is more than simply putting two or more words together to create a sentence. A writer must understand that writing is more than simply telling a story. A writer must understand that all words have meaning, and this meaning will reflect differently to different people. A writer must be fascinated with words, and have a passion about length of sentences, metaphor, simile, rhythm and flow, and the aesthetic appearance of how words appear on a page. A writer must understand originality. A writer must be inventive. A writer must be succinct. A writer may not always hit the center of the bullseye, but he must, at the very least, have the ability to hit the target. A wr