Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Art Of Good Writing

Unlike "The Art Of Computer Programming"  by D E Knuth This Article is totally useless & senseless.  Here I am going to express my views on good writing. 

Good writing by definition may be something like, the one which pleases the readers & conveys its message correctly. You need three things to make your writing good & interesting.  First is IDEA, second is deep understanding of that idea & third is Appropiate words to express your idea.

In order to get worthy ideas for writing, you should read as much as you can (that need to be good too). Then you should be able to catch the ideas which you think you understand in depth & you want to convey them to others. But this is not always true. Because some exceptions are always allowed & sometims you can get the ideas in bathroom, in dreams or may be all of a sudden.

Once you have the idea with you, think over it to shape it in a way you want to intimate it to  others. Because it is the presentation not the idea that will enforce reader to take interest in your article. Presentation should be simple & straight forward considering the fact that readers can be of varing background & knowledge. You can learn this from others, by minutely observing their way.

Third & the most significant part of any writing is words selection. Some readers get boared when they see repeating lines, recurring words & out of context examples & This situation can be avoided by chosing the appropiate word for that context. More important is that consistancy should be maintained in terms of difficulty level of words being used. Try to avoid uncommon words & phases. 

But frankly speaking it is very hard to learn something like this by mere reading. Our writing skill depends upon the circumstances/society we live, the people we talk. So the only way to produce effective writing is to keep on writing your thoughts & learm from your own mistakes.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Satisfaction or money???

Here I am again with my own disappointment with my job. I have heard that no body in this world is satisfied with his/her job. but no body told me ever the reason. but life tells you many things you call experience. & thats how you come to know various untold truths.

Waking up by ten.. coming to office by eleven...checking various mails...taking too much time to answer some of them...watching market to go up & down like small tides in the beach. talking to same dirty fellas everyday. receiving frustrating corporate calls from various agents. is in short is the episode of my daily life which keeps on recapping itself evryday.

Satisfaction is similar to happiness that can only be pursue but can never be achieved (from pursuit of happiness). I should rather say that happiness comes when you are satisfied with your life. but other than these two the most essential thing you need is money. You can deny you responsibility towards yourself but you cant for others. you can not simply let go someone else's expectations for getting happiness. This is the money who compels someone to do various terrifying things so why am I so foolish to expect satisfaction while earning it.

Not getting any more right now... continued......

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