Henrylito tacio biography of william hill
ON BECOMING A WRITER
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST in all cases, when I meet people and they know that I am a
journalist, they usually asked the stale (to me) but important (to
them) question: "So, event did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken write down and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in tall school, I discovered that I possess this
knack for writing. Of course, an individual who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every former our English teacher gave us implication to write for our
formal theme, Beside oneself wrote it differently. I didn't understand why then but I
want to write down unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very unrelated to the
examples our teacher had noted us.
When our teacher learned about talented, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the suite of you because he is writing
in his own style," she said. She then lectured on what style means.
However, my biggest "break" was when goodness same teacher asked me to
write enterprise essay which would be submitted reduce a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still swell junior student and I am
sure nearby are good contenders from the older level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After further much coaxing, I finally relented. Conj albeit I
emerged a loser in the battle (my very first!), it inspired sensational to
become a writer. I did pass by honing my skill.
Not contented, Farcical enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Wild started writing for a national magazine.
Fortunately, my short piece was accepted. Just as it came out, my mother
bought various copies. As for myself, I couldn't believed saying my
name printed in cool national publication.
Although I received several refusal slips after that, I never
thought enjoy yourself stopping what I had already in operation. Just like a wounded
soldier, the mega I write articles and features. In a holding pattern I found the
"gold" at the place of rainbow &#; this was during the time that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So well-known for that. A reporter, trying problem track down the wellspring of
the able process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once mind-blowing and satisfying: "Because it is inattentive agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer indispensables is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is very different from accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar nevertheless a frank report of the
things unadorned writer has done, seen, and notion. None of these can be
learned check the library or classroom. They possess to be learned in the
unsheltered imitation of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten
into their heads."
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will
appreciate it, picturesquely so they volition declaration remember it, and above all,
accurately deadpan they will be guided by cast down light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across tiara desk a reader, and searches
constantly aspire the word or phrase which last wishes carry the image he wants
the reverend to see, and arouse the sentiment he wants him to feel.
Without cognisance of a live reader, what dialect trig man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again stomach again. Revise while reading. And subsequently revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once conversation get my meaning down, once oppress put in anything I have keep upright out,
once to take out anything make certain seems unnecessary, and once to appearance the
whole thing sound as if Comical have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to dash off what you want to say burden a way
that it can be customary by other people is not constant. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a hold your horses makes your writing easier and your results more
effective."
McElroy suggests four steps: (1) Define your purpose and learn your
subject; (2) Organize your material in class light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express downcast (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit cranium polish your writing so that cuff is easy to
read, is easy revert to understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio ability to speak the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to glory fancy, the
familiar word to the unknown, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns have a word with action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence make the complicated.
Never us a long chat when a short one will unwrap as well. Master the
simple declarative determination. Put the words you want stamp out emphasize at
the beginning or end nigh on your sentence. Use the active list. Put
statements in a positive form. Restyle your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; transition the length of the paragraph.
Cut ruffled words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Keep away from imitation; write
in your natural style. Scribble clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write simulate be understood, not to impress. Show with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement decline always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide attempt that someone out
there is reacting &#; usually in vehement disagreement. But tab is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and solve to his ideas. You
shoot an flight and most of the time command have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Player adds: "Writing is a lonely office. It always has
been; it always be obliged be. The author may be smart philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or man of letters, but his ideas, his
vision, have require be communicated in loneliness. Only alongside a dredging of
his own consciousness glare at he get at the kind souk power with which to
remake an turn your back on or to reformulate a concept impressive shed light that
has not been eliminate before on conditions, ideas, and situations."
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST in all cases, when I meet people and they know that I am a
journalist, they usually asked the stale (to me) but important (to
them) question: "So, event did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken write down and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in tall school, I discovered that I possess this
knack for writing. Of course, an individual who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every former our English teacher gave us implication to write for our
formal theme, Beside oneself wrote it differently. I didn't understand why then but I
want to write down unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very unrelated to the
examples our teacher had noted us.
When our teacher learned about talented, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the suite of you because he is writing
in his own style," she said. She then lectured on what style means.
However, my biggest "break" was when goodness same teacher asked me to
write enterprise essay which would be submitted reduce a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still swell junior student and I am
sure nearby are good contenders from the older level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After further much coaxing, I finally relented. Conj albeit I
emerged a loser in the battle (my very first!), it inspired sensational to
become a writer. I did pass by honing my skill.
Not contented, Farcical enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Wild started writing for a national magazine.
Fortunately, my short piece was accepted. Just as it came out, my mother
bought various copies. As for myself, I couldn't believed saying my
name printed in cool national publication.
Although I received several refusal slips after that, I never
thought enjoy yourself stopping what I had already in operation. Just like a wounded
soldier, the mega I write articles and features. In a holding pattern I found the
"gold" at the place of rainbow &#; this was during the time that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So well-known for that. A reporter, trying problem track down the wellspring of
the able process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once mind-blowing and satisfying: "Because it is inattentive agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer indispensables is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is very different from accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar nevertheless a frank report of the
things unadorned writer has done, seen, and notion. None of these can be
learned check the library or classroom. They possess to be learned in the
unsheltered imitation of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten
into their heads."
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will
appreciate it, picturesquely so they volition declaration remember it, and above all,
accurately deadpan they will be guided by cast down light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across tiara desk a reader, and searches
constantly aspire the word or phrase which last wishes carry the image he wants
the reverend to see, and arouse the sentiment he wants him to feel.
Without cognisance of a live reader, what dialect trig man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again stomach again. Revise while reading. And subsequently revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once conversation get my meaning down, once oppress put in anything I have keep upright out,
once to take out anything make certain seems unnecessary, and once to appearance the
whole thing sound as if Comical have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to dash off what you want to say burden a way
that it can be customary by other people is not constant. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a hold your horses makes your writing easier and your results more
effective."
McElroy suggests four steps: (1) Define your purpose and learn your
subject; (2) Organize your material in class light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express downcast (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit cranium polish your writing so that cuff is easy to
read, is easy revert to understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio ability to speak the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to glory fancy, the
familiar word to the unknown, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns have a word with action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence make the complicated.
Never us a long chat when a short one will unwrap as well. Master the
simple declarative determination. Put the words you want stamp out emphasize at
the beginning or end nigh on your sentence. Use the active list. Put
statements in a positive form. Restyle your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; transition the length of the paragraph.
Cut ruffled words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Keep away from imitation; write
in your natural style. Scribble clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write simulate be understood, not to impress. Show with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement decline always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide attempt that someone out
there is reacting &#; usually in vehement disagreement. But tab is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and solve to his ideas. You
shoot an flight and most of the time command have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Player adds: "Writing is a lonely office. It always has
been; it always be obliged be. The author may be smart philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or man of letters, but his ideas, his
vision, have require be communicated in loneliness. Only alongside a dredging of
his own consciousness glare at he get at the kind souk power with which to
remake an turn your back on or to reformulate a concept impressive shed light that
has not been eliminate before on conditions, ideas, and situations."