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Dazzle with Your Writing Skills

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Today when I came back from a party my mind was occupied with some cheesy talks of the people around. Someone commented to me “You have chosen an easy profession, isn’t?” I couldn’t answer at that point of time but the afterthoughts gave me a reason to write this post. Writing seems calm, relaxed to those who are not in this profession. But my views are somewhat diverse and dissimilar in this regard. You can climb a staircase but climbing Everest is hard. You can catch a bus while running at a bus stop but running a complete marathon is completely different. Writing is hard, it’s not an icing on the cake to just pen down your thoughts and feelings in stroke of an hour. It takes creativity, courage, fearlessness, daring, valour to write even something about yourself. It’s true. For those who want to adopt writing as their career, first and foremost they must be open minded. Why am I saying open-minded? This is because, everyone can’t be Jeff Keller, Dr. Joseph Murphy or

Writer in the Making- An Eye Opener

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I came across this competition and it got me thinking about ‘my calling’. I want to just build on my own experience!   “Your Calling—Your Story” a writing contest by the Positive Writer .    If you follow this link, you will see what it is all about.  If you have a blog, you can enter this competition. Chetan Bhagat, Ravinder Singh- are some of the names which inspired me to kick off my journey as a budding writer. Will I be able to write? Will I be a good writer? Which genre will I pen down? Were some of the questions that kept lingering in my mind. Then, there came a turning point in my life where I was compelled to write my first research paper in order to complete my MTech degree. Amidst all the circumstances, I was relishing writing that manifesto. I was unaware that was a watershed in my life. “I stopped looking for the light. Decided to become it instead”. The journey has been a roller coaster ride with ups and downs. Being a content writer, I had to undergo inter