by Filmgirl37

Created on: February 13, 2011

The Doubtless Dollar Signs of Writing Right

For every out of print book by the seasoned author, there are dozens of new manuscripts that are being patiently penned on a daily basis by the would-be proteges of the writing world.  And, not surprisingly, every one of these grammatical gurus has there own unique story to tell that they truly believe will bolster them from the bottom of the rejection pile to the top of talent's A-list.  But are these burgeoning prodigies really writing right?  And do they have both enough material and enough stamina to sustain them once their first best seller has become old news?  Maybe.  But maybe not.  Many writers write solely for the love of their crafts while many more desire only the "big bucks" that they believe that that best seller will bring.  And for the latter who must come to terms quickly with the fact that QUANTITY will eventually far outweigh QUALITY in their coveted quest to "crank out the pages," the long held adage that the writer MUST write what he or she is MOST familiar with holds especially true.  And this is the case for mainly three (3) reasons:

1.  Speed:  While it is very much true that the "unknown" writer might well feel the constant and ongoing pressure (in a sense, the NEED) to produce at least a nominal amount of material daily in case that poem is in just the right price range or that short story is the seller that financially sustains, he or she has, realistically, not yet fallen under the curse of "DEMAND."  By this, I mean that because he or she has yet to sell that critical piece that brings them to the crucial crossroads between fame and flop, he or she also is under no contractual agreement to produce more material than already exists.  But, once he or she has written even sometimes as little as ONE piece that garners any positive attention (and thus, anticipation) for more, he or she will experience the VERY REAL pressure of DEMAND and might also find that only by writing what he or she knows can he or she have any hope of writing quickly enough to quench the frenzied fan.

2.  Ease of Transmission and Fluidity of Expression:  The writer who chooses to venture into uncharted territory and to create characters that are almost wholly divorced from him or herself, might find that their writing either stagnates or comes to a halt all together because of either a lack of knowledge or a lack of inspiration.  Conversely, the writer who stays safely inside his or her comfort zone and chooses (ever aptly indeed) to write in the realm of the known will find that transferring thought to paper can be done with relative ease and fluidity of expression.

3.  Believability:  The writer who is truly true and writes from the heart has also truly mastered the art of "writing right." And this "writing right" only comes when the reader of the piece can somehow instinctively connect with the exuding vulnerability of the author.  And this openness is discerned only when a writer is willing to write what he or she knows best and can communicate their experience with such poetic precision that the reader believes what they are reading without question.

While the modern writer faces a market in which his or her manuscript might be languishing in the obscurity of an uncertain acceptance for quite some time, that same writer's willingness to write what he or she knows might just be their ticket out of the discard pile and into the supreme destiny of doubtless dollar signs!

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