All about Writing

People do have several reasons why they start blogging. My reason is I am bored. As a matter of fact I am writing something because I don't have anything else to do. For the first time in 5 years of my career, I am completely free. Some may call it a good thing, but alas! pain of complete prolonged freedom nobody understands. I did enjoy the free time for a week but now it is intolerable and hence my attempt at blogging.

Its so funny that I can relentlessly brood for hours and yet struggle to write couple of paragraphs. After introspecting why it is so difficult for me, I decided to list down the attributes every writer must have(Which I don't have yet ).

• Vocabulary: The toughest thing whenever I sit to scribble couple of lines is choice of words. I realize how small my dictionary is and I am ashamed that after 5 years of IT work I hardly know any English.  Its not always about use of Complicated fancy Words. It is about communicating effectively with impressive yet simple words. And So first step for me is to improve my Vocabulary. For now I think I will read more, that should help.
• Knowledge/Study: This is for me the most important aspect of any write up. Whenever I read something, all I look for is "What Am I going to gain from this?". A techie reads technical blogs to acquire more technical knowledge, A Sports freak will read Harsha  Bhogle so that he improved his Sports Knowledge and so on. So its utmost important to fill facts in a write up. More the facts better the blog. And how can one write more facts, by improving his knowledge of field Or Study/Research about what he is going to write.
• Creativity: I knew a friend of mine who was a novice in writing like me, yet I always enjoyed his blogs. So did many other people. Not underestimating his writing skills, he wasn't a genius in writing. But he knew how to make his blogs catchy. He would do Simple stuffs like adding images, have couple of jokes in blog etc.. Overall the package was always impressive. So bottom line it pays to be little creative and it will definitely cover other shortcomings.

Hopefully some day I will develop these qualities and I will be a decent blogger. Hope for the best.

Cheers for new begining,

Ravi