Please, Think Twice (Even a Thousand Times) Before You Call Yourself a Writer
I would like to make a disclaimer. PinoyCopywriter.com is my blog. This is not a site where I’m offering writing services. Again, this is just a blog. I mentioned that because I have received job offers and even applications for a writing position. I kindly turned them all down. But there’s this one applicant that stood out from them all. He described himself, in his own words, as a...
Read MoreUnderstanding Why We Write
Why do we write? As a job? To earn a living? To express our thoughts and emotions? To share our knowledge? Or simply because we’re good at it? I first started to write creatively when I read Jules Verne’s “A Journey to the Center of the Earth”. It was science fiction that got me mesmerized into reading a novel or any fiction for that matter. For years I’ve tried to...
Read MoreRapid Writing
To some people it’s speed writing or free writing; to me, I call it rapid writing. I’m not sure if there’s a right term for it, but what I’m referring to is writing everything that comes to your mind, without pausing and editing it. You put it down on paper or type it on your computer and post it immediately on your blog or some place else. There’s a certain joy that...
Read MoreHow to Kill Your Writing Career
I have witnessed a number of friends who started out with such promising writing careers, either from the opportunities that they got or their sheer talent, only to have their writing future cut short. From them I’ve learned a few things on what to avoid to keep my writing career or at least my interest in it, going strong. 1. Never procrastinate When you have a job to do, get it done now....
Read MoreWhen Did I Know I Wanted to Write for a Living
I’ve been asked that a dozen of times and my answer is always like this: When I found out that I sucked in math. No kidding. The main reason why I chose Journalism as my major was because there was no Math subjects there. I actually checked first the list of subjects under each major and I was looking for any degree that has no ‘counting of numbers’ as one of its prerequisites....
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