A friend told me that if one wants to be a good writer, she must write everyday. She must start writing about something or anything. The main purpose of which is to exercise her writing skills and hone any natural or nurtured skills she may have.
I wonder if everyone who is trying to start this habit, started writing about writing? I wonder how many times have i wrote about writing?
In order to write something, you need to be motivated to write about that something. Writing does not come out of thin air. There is a push and pull effect when it comes to retelling a story from your own perspective. One needs to be inspired to take the words of life and others, add a little bit more and make it into your own.
Without new ideas, new angles or personality, it is plagiarism. it will be just copy-pasting words of another and signing it with your name. I am reminded that there are no new ideas, just "repackaged" ones.
The next logical step then would be reacting on newspaper articles, oh how cliche. I guess that is why high school teachers makes you do it in class. However, critiquing news articles or writing about news only matters if YOU care about the news or the issue.
