Mayeesha's Answer
I wouldn't consider myself as a writer yet but I'm telling people already that writing is my recent hobby and I would like to get as good as possible in it over time.
I was always a voracious reader so reading/writing comes easily to me for some reason. I've good literary taste because of constant reading. My family members also expected that I would start writing at some point of my life, except that I didn't understand that it would be via Quora where I would start writing first. I write in Medium too now to practice article writing. I want to write whole books or biographies of other people in my future life.
And it just is natural for me somehow just like breathing. I don't feel self conscious when I write. I know there are other people reading my answers or articles but all I can think of is how to communicate better instead of feeling self conscious. I improved a lot in the last two years only because of my constant tinkering and lack of inhibition when it comes to writing. I think there are other people who write in different ways than I do.
It doesn't come naturally to them. For them it's a matter of skill but for me it's a matter of communication to human beings. What surprised me most about myself is that how comfortable I felt when I started writing. There are other areas of studying where I've felt that 'comfort signal' too and in all areas I plan to play to my strengths.
Since I'm going to be good at in it in future and I enjoy it immensely, it makes sense for me to just keep writing different things about different stuff. It also helps me to structure my thoughts and get better in communication eventually. For example, I didn't care about composition structure of sentences when I first writing. I just cared about somehow communicating the emotions. I didn't think about best ways to convey an emotion. But I do care about that now.
I actually follow the general Bangladeshi way of writing right now which was famous when I was growing up. That literary technique is mostly about using simple sentences and words to convey powerful words/emotions. I also take a very conversational tone. For me, power matters more when it comes to writing as opposed to other feelings. I don't really care about how emotional my writing seems or whether I can touch the audiences heart or not. What I want to do eventually is to be able to 'change people's thinking paradigms' with my writing. So it's basically about extremely powerful communication for me. Whether it's going to be used for good or bad reasons doesn't matter to much either as long as I be able to communicate what I really want to say. I guess I'm somewhat religious about writing in a weird way, but that's just me.
I don't know if I would start thinking about different literary techniques too in near future because it seems to me that when our skills grow in some area we start thinking about details that do not really matter to us when we are beginners. I also have great respect for the writers I admire. I felt that they are like floating light beacons communicating to people across time, space and culture. Great writers come once or twice per generation per genre and I don't think I'd ever be one of them because I'll not pursue writing exclusively ever. But well, it certainly helps to improve my communication skills and finding a writing 'voice'.
I know most other people I know are better than me in writing right now, both in Quora and elsewhere. Their writing is more professional and they have more experience in conveying emotions and logical structures. Some of them are trained in debating, public speaking or in writing theses etc. But I'm better than most when it comes to true authentic communication. So I feel like that there's a tremendous amount of personal growth opportunity for me lying here in writing. I don't want to be a blogger or a published author etc when it comes to writing. My ambition is to be a good communicator(when I want to be, most of the time I would rather just stay silent).
Basically I write for some unknown reason and I write because it seems like just natural to me. I'm writing right now . That's like a very natural state. As far as I saw most people write because they have some goal in mind. I've no idea why do they do it. I just enjoy the activity. Obviously I wouldn't really enjoy if I'm told to write some short story or an intellectual paper which would be evaluated by editors, but overall I derive a lot of enjoyment from writing which is rare and I also have around zero inhibition when it comes to writing even really bad stuff. I guess that speaks for something. Every single month when I see my old posts I actually think how could I write those shitty answers/articles. So I actually did improve a lot in writing and it just feels good. I don't have a great inspiring story. I just write because it's the way it's supposed to be.
I was always a voracious reader so reading/writing comes easily to me for some reason. I've good literary taste because of constant reading. My family members also expected that I would start writing at some point of my life, except that I didn't understand that it would be via Quora where I would start writing first. I write in Medium too now to practice article writing. I want to write whole books or biographies of other people in my future life.
And it just is natural for me somehow just like breathing. I don't feel self conscious when I write. I know there are other people reading my answers or articles but all I can think of is how to communicate better instead of feeling self conscious. I improved a lot in the last two years only because of my constant tinkering and lack of inhibition when it comes to writing. I think there are other people who write in different ways than I do.
It doesn't come naturally to them. For them it's a matter of skill but for me it's a matter of communication to human beings. What surprised me most about myself is that how comfortable I felt when I started writing. There are other areas of studying where I've felt that 'comfort signal' too and in all areas I plan to play to my strengths.
Since I'm going to be good at in it in future and I enjoy it immensely, it makes sense for me to just keep writing different things about different stuff. It also helps me to structure my thoughts and get better in communication eventually. For example, I didn't care about composition structure of sentences when I first writing. I just cared about somehow communicating the emotions. I didn't think about best ways to convey an emotion. But I do care about that now.
I actually follow the general Bangladeshi way of writing right now which was famous when I was growing up. That literary technique is mostly about using simple sentences and words to convey powerful words/emotions. I also take a very conversational tone. For me, power matters more when it comes to writing as opposed to other feelings. I don't really care about how emotional my writing seems or whether I can touch the audiences heart or not. What I want to do eventually is to be able to 'change people's thinking paradigms' with my writing. So it's basically about extremely powerful communication for me. Whether it's going to be used for good or bad reasons doesn't matter to much either as long as I be able to communicate what I really want to say. I guess I'm somewhat religious about writing in a weird way, but that's just me.
I don't know if I would start thinking about different literary techniques too in near future because it seems to me that when our skills grow in some area we start thinking about details that do not really matter to us when we are beginners. I also have great respect for the writers I admire. I felt that they are like floating light beacons communicating to people across time, space and culture. Great writers come once or twice per generation per genre and I don't think I'd ever be one of them because I'll not pursue writing exclusively ever. But well, it certainly helps to improve my communication skills and finding a writing 'voice'.
I know most other people I know are better than me in writing right now, both in Quora and elsewhere. Their writing is more professional and they have more experience in conveying emotions and logical structures. Some of them are trained in debating, public speaking or in writing theses etc. But I'm better than most when it comes to true authentic communication. So I feel like that there's a tremendous amount of personal growth opportunity for me lying here in writing. I don't want to be a blogger or a published author etc when it comes to writing. My ambition is to be a good communicator(when I want to be, most of the time I would rather just stay silent).
Basically I write for some unknown reason and I write because it seems like just natural to me. I'm writing right now . That's like a very natural state. As far as I saw most people write because they have some goal in mind. I've no idea why do they do it. I just enjoy the activity. Obviously I wouldn't really enjoy if I'm told to write some short story or an intellectual paper which would be evaluated by editors, but overall I derive a lot of enjoyment from writing which is rare and I also have around zero inhibition when it comes to writing even really bad stuff. I guess that speaks for something. Every single month when I see my old posts I actually think how could I write those shitty answers/articles. So I actually did improve a lot in writing and it just feels good. I don't have a great inspiring story. I just write because it's the way it's supposed to be.
