just a piece of thought

Getting the message across is hard, so imagine if you decided to be nice instead of being frank, the receiver of the message would be lost in translation.

But if you also take into consideration the feelings of the reciever of the message, this would obviously affect your message because you are protecting him/her from possible wounds that might hit him/her.

Writing is hard. So damn hard. If people think that this is such an easy job, well think again because it is not.

Communication gap, misspelled words, misquotations, and other wrong informations are being fed up to us almost everyday. The writer’s task is to deliver the message across clearly –no more, no less. That itself is a difficult objective so in considering your opinion about something you don’t specifically know, be open and think of many angles because, we never know the real story behind those things unless we try it for ourselves.

epic…FAIL

A writer should read one book per week.

A writer should read good books, good writers.

You don’t write quite well. You have a problem with grammar and tenses and accepting you will bring problem to our newspaper.

An editor in chief told me these things this afternoon. I think he did the right thing by saying the right criticisms about me. I think that I really really really need to work on my tenses and grammar now because I admit, it’s my weakness and I should really work on it as soon as possible.

But after all these criticisms he gave me, he told me that he is not discouraging me because I still have a long way to go because my level is the level of most of their senior writers, especially in the news department so he really insists me to read more books, good books and after six months, I could come back to him and apply again. So there’s still hope. At least he told me I’m not hopeless.

For now I am rejected but I promise to improve myself more so that one day, I’ll be worthy of the position. 

Good thing is there’s someone who gave me a bit of sunshine in the dark. A colleague of mine told me that I’m a creative writer who should be doing well in magazines than on broadsheet, a good console to hear after all the bad things I heard from a local daily’s EIC. 

two days after graduation

I already feel like something about me is already missing.

I miss writing. I miss being dragged to write an article which is due soon and patiently wait for the professor’s remarks on my craft. I miss interviewing people. I miss asking for others opinion about my craft. I miss everything about writing.