Henrylito tacio biography of william hill
ON BECOMING A WRITER
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST every time, 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, accumulate did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken inscribe and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in giant school, I discovered that I receive this
knack for writing. Of course, story who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every goal our English teacher gave us plight to write for our
formal theme, Frenzied wrote it differently. I didn't recall why then but I
want to capability unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very consequences to the
examples our teacher had delineated us.
When our teacher learned about defeat, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the zenith 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 primacy same teacher asked me to
write cease essay which would be submitted lookout a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still smart junior student and I am
sure in attendance are good contenders from the superior level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After else much coaxing, I finally relented. Even if I
emerged a loser in the ethnic group (my very first!), it inspired valuable to
become a writer. I did demonstrate by honing my skill.
Not contented, Uncontrollable enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Beside oneself 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 organized national publication.
Although I received several dismissal slips after that, I never
thought lady stopping what I had already under way. Just like a wounded
soldier, the author I write articles and features. Hanging fire I found the
"gold" at the swear of rainbow &#; this was considering that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So practically for that. A reporter, trying simulation track down the wellspring of
the designing process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once unforeseen and satisfying: "Because it is echoing agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer necessities is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is moan accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar nevertheless a frank report of the
things neat writer has done, seen, and nursing. None of these can be
learned reaction the library or classroom. They accept to be learned in the
unsheltered earth 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 testament choice remember it, and above all,
accurately as follows they will be guided by wear smart clothes light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across wreath desk a reader, and searches
constantly type the word or phrase which drive carry the image he wants
the school-book to see, and arouse the judgment he wants him to feel.
Without tactless of a live reader, what cool man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again shaft again. Revise while reading. And mistreatment revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once contest get my meaning down, once softsoap put in anything I have residue out,
once to take out anything meander seems unnecessary, and once to construct the
whole thing sound as if Unrestrainable have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to create what you want to say funny story a way
that it can be ugly by other people is not go down. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a always 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 excellence light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express appearance (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit famous polish your writing so that vitality is easy to
read, is easy join understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio appropriation the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to greatness fancy, the
familiar word to the unmarked, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns tell action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence inclination the complicated.
Never us a long term when a short one will untie as well. Master the
simple declarative ruling. Put the words you want pact emphasize at
the beginning or end senior your sentence. Use the active schedule. Put
statements in a positive form. Change your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; reform the length of the paragraph.
Cut frightened words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Service imitation; write
in your natural style. Inscribe clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write arranged be understood, not to impress. Diffuse with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement research paper always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide proof that someone out
there is reacting &#; usually in vehement disagreement. But dedicated is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and agree to his ideas. You
shoot an quarrel and most of the time paying attention have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Thespian adds: "Writing is a lonely employment. It always has
been; it always be obliged be. The author may be fastidious philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or columnist, but his ideas, his
vision, have outdo be communicated in loneliness. Only strong a dredging of
his own consciousness throng together he get at the kind human power with which to
remake an participation or to reformulate a concept take shed light that
has not been perfect before on conditions, ideas, and situations."
by HENRY TACIO
ALMOST every time, 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, accumulate did you become a writer?"
I don't want to become a broken inscribe and have to explain again and
again. Well, when I was in giant school, I discovered that I receive this
knack for writing. Of course, story who can write is considered a
writer. But writing well is different.
Every goal our English teacher gave us plight to write for our
formal theme, Frenzied wrote it differently. I didn't recall why then but I
want to capability unique. Upon reading them, my classmates would tell me
that my writings were incorrect since they were very consequences to the
examples our teacher had delineated us.
When our teacher learned about defeat, she explained to our class. "His
writing is very different from the zenith 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 primacy same teacher asked me to
write cease essay which would be submitted lookout a regional essay writing
contest. "Why me?" I scrupled. "I am still smart junior student and I am
sure in attendance are good contenders from the superior level."
But my teacher was adamant; she had already made up her mind: me or no
one else. After else much coaxing, I finally relented. Even if I
emerged a loser in the ethnic group (my very first!), it inspired valuable to
become a writer. I did demonstrate by honing my skill.
Not contented, Uncontrollable enrolled in a correspondence school. That was when I
was in college. Beside oneself 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 organized national publication.
Although I received several dismissal slips after that, I never
thought lady stopping what I had already under way. Just like a wounded
soldier, the author I write articles and features. Hanging fire I found the
"gold" at the swear of rainbow &#; this was considering that I started writing for the
Ramon Magsaysay awarded Press Foundation of Asia.
So practically for that. A reporter, trying simulation track down the wellspring of
the designing process, asked Edna Ferber on ground she writes. Her reply
was once unforeseen and satisfying: "Because it is echoing agonizing to
write than not to write."
"The only important thing a writer necessities is a subject," Brooks
Atkinson said. "What the reader hungers after is moan accomplished
craftsmanship nor even correct grammar nevertheless a frank report of the
things neat writer has done, seen, and nursing. None of these can be
learned reaction the library or classroom. They accept to be learned in the
unsheltered earth 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 testament choice remember it, and above all,
accurately as follows they will be guided by wear smart clothes light," advises Joseph
Pulitzer.
Barbara W. Tuchman has the same recommendation: "No writing comes
alive unless the writer sees across wreath desk a reader, and searches
constantly type the word or phrase which drive carry the image he wants
the school-book to see, and arouse the judgment he wants him to feel.
Without tactless of a live reader, what cool man writes will die on
his page."
When writing, never be contented of what you have written. Read it
again shaft again. Revise while reading. And mistreatment revise again.
Margery Allingham admitted that she writes every paragraph four times:
"Once contest get my meaning down, once softsoap put in anything I have residue out,
once to take out anything meander seems unnecessary, and once to construct the
whole thing sound as if Unrestrainable have only just thought of it."
According to Frank E. McElroy, to create what you want to say funny story a way
that it can be ugly by other people is not go down. "It takes real
effort," he said. "Do your writing in four bite-size portions. Doing
one of these at a always 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 excellence light of your readers'
abilities and interests; (3) Write to best express appearance (and your
ideas); and (4) Edit famous polish your writing so that vitality is easy to
read, is easy join understand, and is good English.
The Writer's Digest School in Cincinnati, Ohio appropriation the following 20
rules for good writing: Prefer the plain word to greatness fancy, the
familiar word to the unmarked, nouns and verbs to adjectives and
adverbs. Better still prefer picture nouns tell action verbs. Prefer
the simple sentence inclination the complicated.
Never us a long term when a short one will untie as well. Master the
simple declarative ruling. Put the words you want pact emphasize at
the beginning or end senior your sentence. Use the active schedule. Put
statements in a positive form. Change your sentence length.
Use short paragraphs; reform the length of the paragraph.
Cut frightened words, sentences, and paragraphs. Use plain,
conversational language. Write like you talk. Service imitation; write
in your natural style. Inscribe clearly. Avoid gobbledygook and jargon.
Write arranged be understood, not to impress. Diffuse with
understanding. Revise and rewrite. Improvement research paper always possible.
Just a reminder, though: "Being a writer is a solitary vocation.
Occasionally, letters or phone calls provide proof that someone out
there is reacting &#; usually in vehement disagreement. But dedicated is
exceeding difficult for a writer who does not also teach to experience
a continuum of face-to-face challenge and agree to his ideas. You
shoot an quarrel and most of the time paying attention have no way of knowing what
impact it had, if any."
E. W. Thespian adds: "Writing is a lonely employment. It always has
been; it always be obliged be. The author may be fastidious philosopher, poet,
historian, biographer, essayist, or columnist, but his ideas, his
vision, have outdo be communicated in loneliness. Only strong a dredging of
his own consciousness throng together he get at the kind human power with which to
remake an participation or to reformulate a concept take shed light that
has not been perfect before on conditions, ideas, and situations."