Start Writing Like a Professional Writer

Haris
3 min readDec 31, 2021
Start Writing Like a Professional Writer
Start Writing Like a Professional Writer

Start Writing Like a Professional Writer- I am about to become a writer, I am a person who loves to read, I have read many things, I am very impressed with the people behind all the works I read. That’s amazing, they can write sentences and paragraphs that are short, concise and clear. I can feel the emotions and the message they want to convey. some of them look ambiguous, because the conclusions from the writings take many points of view, both from the side of the author and the reader.

Why do I want to write

Writing is emotional, I am very passionate, I want to make people feel this feeling. An inexplicable feeling. I want to write and make people feel my emotions and feelings. I say it to myself every day.

Being a writer is not easy

Being a writer is not as easy as I imagined. Just thinking about what I’m going to write is really hard, I don’t have any basis for something big like this. Although I read a lot about good writing guidelines, how to become a writer and how to start writing. But I still don’t understand how I should start.

I want to write something good that is on par with the writings I’ve read. As if I was a born writer. I am very proud of myself. I don’t want to know how they started, what their first writing was like.

“I forgot my important human lesson. I wanted to go running straight away without learning to crawl, stand and walk.”

Writing must have talent

I’m going to write something, that’s what crossed my mind, as I stared at the blank screen. There is not a single topic that is really focused on my head that can move my fingers over the keyboard for now.

I was thinking hard, how can a writer out there be able to focus with the contents of their heads and make their fingers dance until they produce sentence after sentence and paragraph after paragraph which creates a masterpiece.

I spent a lot of time asking questions in my head. Why, how and what is their secret. Of course they don’t use magic, they must have worked hard or they were born with the talent to become writers.

I reject the truth that they are born with natural talent, because I believe talent is born from what we like and hone it into a talent.

Start or give up

A little depressed, when I have to accept reality, writing is not for me, even though I really want to express myself. But my monitor is still blank, my hands are still.

Too many intuitions in my head, but they are nothing more than zombies, yes zombies, the dead coming back to life. They will catch and eat my brain.

No matter how exhilarating, the intuition that pops into my head. If I don’t have the talent, to get it out of my head, isn’t it all for nothing.

I still can’t give up on my feelings. My desire to write weighs on me. It’s like you stop in the middle of having sex, because someone knocking on your door is annoying isn’t it.

In the end this text appears on my monitor. But this is not what I want to share, it’s embarrassing, it’s like expressing your feelings to women in the crowd, when you realize your chances there are very small.

But a friend of mine suggested sharing it, he said it’s amazing, you’ve taken a small step. I know my friends are just trying to cheer me up.

Maybe this is the only writing that I managed to write with all its shortcomings. But this will be my history in the future.

I thought maybe I would get some advice and a little advice from the wise people out there, if I shared it.

I had to learn from scratch, and was really serious about this. I would learn to crawl, stand and walk. I believe next will run after my goal. Start Writing Like a Professional Writer

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Haris

Hai, I’m Haris. I am a Writer living in Indonesia. I am also interested in reading and writing. You can read https://www.haris.eu.org/