Writing, especially on paper, is fast degenerating in our world today. Many people, including teenagers, find it easy to write short text messages on phone, chat with friends and use non-conventional abbreviations to pass across their message. Yet still the importance of writing in ink to hone your writing skills cannot be overemphasized. In this contemporary times, writing is a skill that must be developed. Why, because writing expresses the harmony between the tongue and the heart, when the tongue is compared to the pen of a swift and ready writer.
You may think it takes years to acquire the knowledge needed to become successful in writing. But sparing little time per day for reading and giving attention to learning can be helpful in increasing your knowledge and skills of writing.
Writers are learners; they're hunters of information. Do you agree? The amount of knowledge and information available in the world is increasing at a mind-blowing pace. In fact, it has been said that human knowledge has doubled in the last 20 years. More alarming is that the information that allows a person to be successful, to be on the cutting edge of his career and profession, especially in writing communication, is evolving. Therefore, you need to commit yourself to a lifelong self improvement and learning, improving your mind, increasing your skills and boosting your ability to assimilate and apply what you have learnt.
How to become a skillful Writer
1. Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The day you stop learning is the day you start dying. You must keep learning on a continuous basis.
2. Learn to read good educational books regularly
Reading for at least one hour in a day translates to about one book per week. This translates to 50 books per year which if consistently pursued will translate to 500 books in 10 years
3. Have your own study room or a quiet place of study, a place where you can do conscious and committed reading.
4. Study great leaders who are writers. One of the ways of improving your writing skills and subsequently building your competence is to study biographies of great leaders and their speeches.
With all these, you are on your way to becoming a better writer.
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