Shitty First Draft ? Kohviko Punya Cerita

The day I started my 30 days of writing program during summer (if you want to know more visit http://kohviko.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/tiga-puluh-hari-menulis/?) was the day I realized once more that I have to somehow improve my writing skill. I have been struggling with writing since three or four years ago during my second year of study at the college. It was also the moment when I started to buy writing books, a lot of them. On Writing by Mark Zienner and Guidelines by Ruth Spack are among the very first I bought.

The very first thing I got from those writing books were, it is a prerequisite to read sufficient materials before you can write or in other word, good reading provides good writing. Since then I invested most of my monthly allowances to buy books most of my time for reading, reading and reading. My readings were not only about writing but varied, from politics, religion, philosophy to literature, economy and lots of other thing.

However, although the purpose was to learn writing, what I did most of the time is only reading and reading and reading. The fact is it took three years from reading to actually started writing or more accurately saying, documenting my writing, on and off on this blog.

It was not until I read a book about public speaking that really hit me on my head (yes it was a book on public speaking, not on writing). The author said that public speaking is a performance and there is no other way to be a better performer than to rehearse it, and so does writing, I thought!

During the reading period my passion towards writing definitely has improved, not to mention the skill that I have developed on grammars and comprehension, but still not the writing skill itself. My progress on writing skill was nil! Reading is must for a good writing, but to learn writing by only reading is like to learn math by reading.

Practice is the key, and like any other practice, it requires discipline and the most important is courage. Why courage? Because it will be very likely that you will fail in your first try of anything. Baby birds fall of the sky, a taekwondo student loose tooth on his first match, and a writer writes clumsy sentences on his first draft, but none of them stop. They keep redoing things until they finally mastered it.

Writing is rewriting and it is a process. So the sooner you accept the fact that you?ll be likely to write a shitty first draft the better writer you?ll be, because you know what you need to do is to rewrite it, again, again and again.

Source: http://kohviko.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/shitty-first-draft/

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