The Three Deviances of a Young Writer

i wrote this one after a heated argument with a friend. i couldn't hurt her feelings by being insensitive. so i just wrote this one to pour in my thoughts.

 Generally, I find myself precluded, by myself, to write. And to address such preclusion, I found an eerie way to suggest to myself what to write and what about. I suggested to myself I should discover the deviances which a young writer must face. I found three.

1. Impress the Reader
     Well, I consider that as the first defiance. For me, it undoubtedly is. However far ideal or committed we are to serve the truth and the truth alone, the subliminal purpose is always there: that is to impress the reader. First and foremost, it becomes foreboding to write something as vague as to critical facts that the reader might lose interest in the rest of the pages that a writer resorts to find motives and opportunities to impress the reader, whether it serves the truth or not. Impression as to the reader answers the question: “Why write?” Quickly, the writer enacts for himself this ideology that the purpose of writing is then left alone in the murky ideals. Like now, I am writing as to impress, whether there is a concealed desire to impart my understanding to you, reader, the first instance my hand hit the keyboard, my intention is to impress you.

2. Make Things Hip
    This defiance is well grounded on the first defiance above. Critically, a writer must look out for something which might just catch the reader’s attention and, as to reading, not get the reader bored. Now, when the audience is generally not holding a book rather a mouse, a young writer must attract the senses of the bored reader and invite him/her to spend another minute on his composition. While making things hip, sometimes too, the writer is making things up. This is a universal truth as to online writers/bloggers/posters. If one cannot sell a thing online, then sell it using another thing. One’s composition must always sound as modern and as techie as possible. It addresses the writer’s need for self appraisal and esteem. By knowing that a huge crowd is reading his work, he feels accomplished.

3. Write Then Think
    Writers of today, especially the young ones, write not because a muse or a divine inspiration just came over him. They write because they have to. By they have to; I mean deadlines, impressions, and the dilemma of keeping a blog, and what not. They immediately take out a pen or turn on their units and open the MS Word and begin to type. Not even thinking about what to write. Just that. Write. Then, he does the thinking afterwards. Consequentially, most writers resort to this not because they want to write but because they want to write more. Where were the days when one wakes up and jumpstarts his day saying “I’ve got an idea!” Today, we, more or less, wake up in the mood of “Damn, what was it again?”

Reviews

[Solst Rapture]

I don't feel compelled to argue what you have written. You seemed to have had fun, so it is worthwhile. I wonder how I'm coming across; should I ask myself if you impressed me. I don't think I should, it'd be unfair on you. I know what it feels like but it is hard to impress, it seems. I rarely impress.
The writing is not basic, not at all. There are some moments when the meaning is diluted into really weak odd-bits of potential but that could be my intelligence...and not the writing but I usually understand sentences, unless they're about physics.
I am trying to work out all sorts of things; how old is the writer? What sex is the writer? What culture is the writer? I'm tempted to say it is a 'he' because the word is used a lot in the text but I could reason oppositely to that, couldn't I? You may be a 'she'.
From my position in the world, who knows why young people write. Do they write? I do relate to one thing though; not writing because of an idea but just because they 'want' to write. I often feel as if I lack the idea but then for me, the idea of writing is so huge and so philosophical that I'll always be curious about writing and will probably always write, to some extent. I mean what is an idea in writing? If I were to say I have an idea about this young man who has started amateur boxing � he lives in this housing estate and battles with gangs, hopes to 'get out' but never makes it, never gets out. Then he looks at alternative ways to make a living, he labours, then he considers learning but is more scared of learning than fighting so, while weak, falls to crime to earn some immediate money (nothing new here yet I here you scream). He meets a girl who seems to know he's a good man, somehow. He tries to go straight but can't accept being poor and a 'nobody'. She teaches him to be graceful, to understand beauty. He tries but turns to drink. The economy, the depression � this is modern day we're talking about � plunges them in to a poverty they never knew. She turns on him, herself feeling the austerity and he turns on her, putting her in a comma. He goes to jail. She comes out of the comma and forgives him. He forgives himself after she visits him and tells him she still loves him. He gets educated in prison and comes out to marry her but she gets killed in a road accident on their way home.

I just made all that up. Is that an idea, in your eyes? I'm genuinely curious.