Page Five ... Writing ...

Angela Maria De Nobrega Freitas, BSc Hons., Social Sciences, Open University, DipGeog., Open University, Masters, MA, MLit., Literature, studied, Open University, Masters, MA, MSc, MPhil., and Playwriting, studied, Birmingham University. □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ It's a little while since I posted some writing advice to you, so here goes ... It's a little while since I posted my Introductory Page to Writing, Page One, so I am here 're-visiting the genre with you. It is essential, for instance, when annotating a piece of writing that you know who your audience is. In short, its important to know who you are writing for. Sometimes, if we focus on a person or group of people we may wish to speak to can help us consolidate our ideas and moderate our thinking processes accordingly. So, it may be that you have a few things in common with your friends and readers - think about that and talk about it in writing. It may be that your friends, and, indeed, your readers whom you may like and admire may be doing a specific job, or they may have stopped work, and, however, you believe it is the best thing that could have happened for them, friends who perhaps needed just such an occasion to be able to move on with their lives. Really, we can all celebrate such occurrences and be happy for our friends, and especially if they are people whom we like and know deserve to do well. These are all occasions when we may take up our pen or pencil and write. It's a good analogy to adopt, in that as we think we write. When any of us takes up an activity - do something different - meet new people, it becomes a mark of achievement, something that makes us happy, which can inform us about the things that are fundamental to us in our lives. Whether it's an important occasion such as taking part in a public discussion, or public reading, this kind of endeavour or activity can lead us onto the kind of things that become important steps in our learning. They can takes us forward into a public realm or a public reality, and this subtle change in our development can change the dynamic of our experiences, and our memories which we then incorporate into the evolving narrative of our lives. What we do is knit together from a pattern we know well and can speak of with a little expertise when required, this is what is essential in our writing. So, when writing, above all, observe your disciplines - write well, be well informed and write with confidence. Writing on paper with a pen or a well sharpened pencil first solidifies our relationship with the writing process, for some of us, for others, they are perfectly happy to sit down to a key pad and start to annotate that way, my advice is become friends with your writing tools. Whichever process we decide it's good practice, however way we arrive at our writing point. To declare ourselves in a writing reality is to recognize our publishing potential and we must all turn to that conclusion. We need to conclude what we set out to do - to evaluate and validate and finally to round up, to resolve our themes, in other words. If we are writing about it, it must be said. Taking the time to evaluate what is important in our lives means we can write about that and share it with others if we wish. It is essential to do this so that we may plan a little according to our distinctive flag, our unique platform whether in dispensing advice, offering wise words, and above all, enjoying the process, and to have a little fun along the way in appreciation of our individual potential. The fun is in achieving goals and realising achievements, we derive pleasure from our accomplishments, and it's important to take a little time out to think about that., which is what I set out to do here. For now, good luck and good writing and I will write again, soon, Angela Maria De Nobrega Freitas