happy endings

Writing is a great pleasure. However, great attention has to be given to the substance and content.1

When I confine my thoughts, words get clogged. If I ask myself to be hilarious, the page gets filled with poor jokes. One shouldn't ask anything of oneself during the first draft.2

Words put down will finally make sense. Definitely anything written off the head would be low on facts. So doing homework is the bolt of the process. 3

Let me say I am writing about a schoolgirl, writing about me is the easiest. To say the truth I only write about myself. Though I do this, asking other opinions always helps. 4

Organization is another significant element of writing. The first part of the writing is as important as the last part, and as the middle. Every word matters! 5

Fixing a target age group before writing is a tough task and I prefer not doing so. Would I say no to an eight year old and yes to an eighty year old. No. After all what I write about is life. Life, truth and knowledge are universal to all. An age group I fix might not enjoy this book but someone far away from a different age group might love it. Who knows what any individual who picks my book out of the stand likes? Statistics just make all this mundane. Write for yourself at the first stage, and then think about others.6

Whether the content is non-fiction or fiction matters. What I am writing now, will it be called non-fiction? Then to think of it, all things that go in it leads to my real life. So, what I write is non-fiction even if it is a story. This is however a larger question on the concept of classification. All this needs no other homework but talking to oneself.7

To come to the most important part of the writing, it is happy endings. Definitely the happy endings make a better impact on the person than a sad ending. This does not mean do not kill your characters, or create a happily ever after ending. This means that you add the element of hope or questioning. A great piece makes both the writer and the reader question further and relate. Even when a person writes about the darkest event in life, (for instance, death) questioning the concept helps. Even death is not such a morbid subject. Or if one was writing about communal violence, making the reader question about one�s own role in it is a happy ending.8

It always helps to finish a book with some hope and a meaning. Happy endings are the beginning of confusion and through that confusion is born learning.9

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