Writing Blog

Writing can be a long and winding road as the old song goes. It’s so easy sometimes to stray away from the road and get off the beaten path. It’s great for the writer, it’s great for the reader, looking at things anew, looking at all things new. However, the danger of turning off could also mean getting lost. Because once you’re away from driving towards a goal, the temptation of going nowhere beckons. And when you go nowhere, when there’s no destination and you’re meandering, you tend to feel that you need to pretend. That’s when you could get trapped in the jargon jungle. Going round and round in circles, not really progressing and coming back to the same spot. Till finally, there is so much blocking your view of the horizon that you get caught in a quagmire of your own making. Jargonese for its own sake never gets you anywhere. All you end up in is nowhere land, with no one wanting to read what you’ve written. The open, straight, simple road might seem a trifle boring to you but it is infinitely better than being trapped in the jargon jungle. What you need to do is to drive on, carrying the reader with you, all the while trying to see what could make him a little more interested. Keep him awake and keep him listening without being loud or overbearing. Don’t stop to smell the roses if you’re going to get lost doing so.

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