MINT Gallery Magazine Jan. 2018 | Page 62

ignoring the messenger. It is an escape route in Remember all the hours you spent in classrooms our chaotic, traffic jammed string of existence. forging your talent in the form of lecture notes, Everyone needs an escape route, and a safe one letters, assignments and examinations? It’s that at that. At the end of the day, writers write not straightforward. just to entertain their readers, but because it is their wake up call, a thorn in their flesh and “Congratulations, you are now a professional their safest escape route. Most importantly, it is writer.” a form of time travel in which their ultimate goal Write that story, idea, phrase or article. You can is survival. even rewrite that newspaper article that caught your attention just to see if you’ll do a better job. 62 Thirdly; You Read therefore you write. Jokes Just write! apart, the equation is that simple, most times Your first writings may be clumsy and ridiculed we read things online and say to ourselves, this with errors, but they will only serve as a yardstick should have happened this way, or what if things to show you how much better you’ve become in happened otherwise. We write the end plots the months ahead. of movies and books before we get to the end, we bring up possible case scenarios, we critique This is your chance, to rewrite your own faulty plots and story lines. More times than one history because for too long a time our stories we are dissatisfied with how a plot ends and as a black race have been told for us. Spiced proceed in our heads to write a worthy sequel with a lot of falsities and lacking an original or rewrite the end in our heads. You do all these perspective. things and don’t consider yourself a writer yet? You are a writer already, the only difference is time. Lastly; There is a popular rule referred to as the 10,000 hour rule. It states in clear terms that before you achieve mastery of a particular field, you have to practice for at least 10,000 hours.