It’s a long painful process indeed.. as I stroll down to the writing ‘lane’. It’s not really my kind of lane, I’m more a hands-on ‘lane’ rather than writing kind of ‘lane’, but this is the ‘lane’ I decided to take since I decided to start this PhD.
As I go through this process, continuous learning is inevitable, leaning how to read and write, how to construct the stories, or how to tell the stories, learning new vocabulary and many other interesting little processes. That lead to the answer why it’s been a few weeks I didn’t spend time writing in this blog. I have been spending or try to spend most of my time on the effort of writing chapter of my PhD. To be able to write well is to be able to read and understood well any writing, well in this case serious writing. So reading is also part of my new hobbies. Apart from that I also spend six days in Kuala Lumpur. I have make this plan in May, main reason is to reinvestigate Lat’s cartoon in News Straits Times newspaper’s resource centre.
Spend all day in the centre, and had discovered some news stuff which would be helpful in my writing. Now, I’m getting back to my writing process. Today, I went to the supermarket and bought myself lots of cookies, snacks, bars of chocolate, fruits, nuts and some juices. ‘Stocks’ as some of my friends who knows my intentions said. Yes, indeed. I tend to chew a lot when I write and because I don’t want to let myself get distracted to start something else rather than trying to write, I situated some of the ‘stocks’ around me. Just grab when I need them. The trouble I’m facing with writing is how to start.. My guess almost everybody is facing the same situation when writing process involved. Then, just after I managed to get the slow momentum going, I tend to drag the story line like there’s no end of it. ‘Dragging’, Yes, I tend to do that quite often. Some people said, as an advice, is to start with structure, like what do you want to write or what do want to say…, which sometime does help in my hard and slow process, but not all the time. I tend to ‘drag’ the structure and cannot keep it short. Others mentioned about bullet point, same things happen.
Well, here, I’m not trying to feed you with my problems of the writing process, but just to start practicing my writing as I am writing you this piece of short uninteresting point about writing, the beginners problems. One things I like to do before I start writing is to start reading, here’s an advice, don’t read any relevant books to what you want to write. Read something else that got nothing to do with the writing content, just to ‘warming up’ the ‘writing engine’. For me, it did help, and of course lots of sweets, chocolates, chips and juices to sweeten your day. Hope you enjoy reading this short little thoughts.
Now, I should be moving off to my words document to stroll on my writing journey again, another attempt, better be hurry before the mood goes away… Till next time, enjoy the nibbles.