Every word matters
It has almost exceeded a month and a half that I have written anything and posted here. Not that I haven’t written anything at all- I have had quite a lot of ideas and a variety of topics in my mind-perhaps, none of my recent ideas have been able to reach the level of a properly organized ‘write-up’. However, a late-night piece of reflection couldn’t hold me resist my temptation of trying to put this out on record. As a result of this weirdly uncomforting writing gap, I began to ponder onto the reasons of why can it be unexplainably difficult to write at times. Busy schedule, deadlines, weather changes. Various reasons popped up into my mind. But I should not dismiss this one reason that was in every way more convincing than the rest. William Zinsser, in his book, On Writing Well, says: Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. If you find that writing is hard, it is because it is ...