by Nancy Todisco

Created on: May 07, 2009   Last Updated: May 08, 2009

The best writing is prolific; it flows freely without regard to errors, punctuation,or Grammar. Strive to be a prolific writer. Put your pen to the paper, and never remove it. Write frequently, freely, and throw all caution to the wind. Ignore the rules of Writing that were drilled into your brain in elementary and middle school. Forgot to cross your "T's" and dot your "I's"; throw caution to the wind and write and write - and when you're done, write some more!

The best way to express yourself is to continuosly write without hesitation or interruption. Just pull your thoughts out of your head and let them glide down your fingertips and into the world. Once your thoughts are down, it is so simply to go back and organize, punctuation and revise. But the key to improving you writing style, is to be a productive, prolific writer.

So, just as your teacher once told you, make a "sloppy copy", write without reservation, and just dive into your own literary pool. You will become more expressive the longer you write; and your confidence, as well as your passion will increase with each masterpiece.

Be an expressive writer by describing things in an unusual manner; take the reader on a new journey, awaken his curiosity. Lure your audience in like hungry fish embarking on their first feeding. Provide the bait with your words; leave them hungry for more. Take an inanimate object and give it life. For example, " my keyboard is pulsating, like a human heart, circulating life to each of my words". There is no wording that can be criticized, for each writer is his own CEO, deciding the direction of his own production. Remember, a narrative essay is begging to hear from you and your own personal views and experiences; so perform your own psychotherapy on yourself, and strive to remember the situations and events that moved you. If you desire to awaken someone else's emotions, you must first reflect inwardly and awaken your own . Writing should be painful, joyful, therapeutic, and liberating

Draw from your own life experiences. What may be trivial to you, could provide a wealth of information to someone else. Keep your reader interested by using extraordinary words, with the aid of a dictionary or thesaurus. Keep these tools close at hand because they are the tools of your trade. Just as a plumber needs a "snake" to clear a clog; you need your pen, your thesaurus, your tools to get the job done.

Don't be afraid to use humor when the recipe calls for it, or pain when your piece requires a reality check. Your writing could be someone's escape, their ticket to paradise, their journey to places an airplane could never take them.

If you are the type of person that requires index cards or outlines, then by all means, use these methods to become prolific and motivate yourself. Start your writing with an outline , a guide or a plan so you don't become overwhelmed, or lost in the journey your essay will take you on. Try to remember the experiences you had as a child and see how you can offer your wisdom and expertise into your narrative. Nothing is more enlightening or refreshing than getting advice from someone who has felt your pain, someone who has "been there and-done that!"

A good writer must be a good reader, so use all the resources available to you, in order to learn from other people's writing. Turn on the Internet and Google "personal narrative" and read something someone else jotted down. Or simply visit your local library for examples of fine literature. Learn by the others, but mostly learn by doing, creating and writing for yourself. The literary world is your oyster - dig in!

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