The other day one of my fellow LinkedIn friends who also happens to be a content writer came calling to me and asked” Is there a way to be a perfect content writer?”.
Been there and done that; I could smell the desperation running deep into his depth desire to dig as far as he could. His desperate question left me asking the same question to myself so much so that I began to hunt myself with the same hunter that would leave me haunted around a decade ago.
Every single time, I would embark upon writing something new, I would stand before a long list of dos and don’ts. Having skimmed through every single dos and don’ts, I would begin to bark at myself reminding it of the things that the writer in me will have to bow down and babble while writing. However, the sooner I would complete the article, the critic in me would begin to curse myself for failing to live up to the set mark.
Most of the time, I would be caught off guard – killing a fly with an elephant gun. On a few occasions, I would kill the goose that laid golden eggs for me for years. In between, I was so itched to embrace the deadline that I would forget to tick off even the headlines that were fed to me from the get-go.
Believe me, this despicable cursing went on and on until I decided to throw the cliched dogma and batten down the hatchet to be dogmatic in my own avatar. The avatar that wished to be different from the rest by carving out its own niche.
What happened later was nothing sort of a miracle. Though I still don’t know how good I’m, I have fallen in love with every word that is born out of my brain. The attempt to be a unique version of myself has made me a beloved magnet that knows how to weave magic through words.
So long as you enjoy writing, your words will make moves as if they were live magnets. As for whether or not they would create magic, the least you bother about the after-effect the better.
“Challenges and struggles are the inherent ingredients of life,
Much as sharpness and tasting Live blood are off the knife.
So, never let the dips of disappointments dampen your strife.
After all, why repent over the momentary loss and gain,
As you know Life is beautifully stuck between joy and pain!” Rajesh Mishra
