About Writing

When I was growing up, I was wondering what the heck is writing.I had the least respect for the writers. For me then writing would mean sitting down idle and scribbling something meaning less. My father is a poet and he does lots of writing. having a write at home only made things worse for me. I used to dislike the word writing. There were always these essay competitions about many things in school. There I was sitting and wondering why it has to be an essay competition why not a multiple choice test. In our literature exams, there was always at least one essay type question, that needed to have at least 300 words. Oh my gosh that was the horrible part of any question paper for me and it was my weakest mark fetcher. I always wished there was no essay part. In BSc. we had all the questions subject type and that was a big killer. I was freaking out as why everything have to be descriptive.

Now after many years when I sit and think how important it is to put your thoughts into writing, I understand it was not after all a bad idea to train young people into descriptive writing. Now success and failure is determined by your inbuilt ability to be able to write. A good writer convinces grant agencies to trust them to give money. Similarly, a well written paper gets the nod of a reviewer and makes into a good journal. On the other hand if you have great ideas but don't know how to put it down into "convincing" words then you are doomed to be un-successful. Be it academics or industry.

I find blogging is a very interesting concept. Now I am myself into blogging. Its so cool. You can just write about anything. Its like writing your own news paper column without the need to be reviewed. When personal communication is so limited these days, I find blogging is a great way to let yourself heard. So in the end I would say everything boils down into effective communication through writing..