Personal reasons to write well are as important as professional reasons. You can write to touch someone you care about. You can write to discover who you are and what you believe. You can write to preserve important moments in your life. Writing for yourself also means you are taking control of events, making your life more your own. As Carlos Fuentes once said, “Writing is a struggle against silence.” The writer does not just accept life, but works to understand and respond to it.

Chances are, in trying to …

First, you have to love words! Why? Emotions and attitude toward the elements of writing are important..

People say that good speakers are usually bad writers. On the other hand, good writers are often bad speakers. The fact is, writing, just like any other skills can be acquired, learned, and therefore can be put into practice. By knowing the ABC’s of writing, one can start grabbing his pen and start scribbling.

For starters, it is a general principle to always BE YOURSELF when writing. Never allow an alter ego to be the voice for your topic. Like professional singers, what comes from the heart sends out the real …

1. Use brain teasers with built-in outlines
Classification, comparison, contrast, alternate viewpoints, and asking

1. Use your senses.
If you have already identified the topic that you want to write about, it will help if you will try to list sense details related with your topic—smell, taste, touch, sound, and sight. This will help you get into the topic and supply you with vivid details for the draft. Our senses connect our mind to the world around us, so by recalling sense impressions you can recreate the subject for yourself, engaging brains and feelings, and stirring subconscious memories. Drenching yourself in sense impressions is …