I want to become a writer
Usually, the ability to write is manifested from childhood. But this is a desire to be reckoned with, because it does not arise by chance. Its reason is in the properties of the psyche. If there is such a desire, it means that there are abilities to realize it in the best way. And the sooner you begin to develop these abilities, the greater the likelihood of future success …
You are on the cusp of the greatest adventure. I want to become a writer - this is a desire that determines destiny, a difficult path of research and disclosure of human nature.
Perhaps now, as in childhood, you absorb tons of books, in silence and loneliness, climbing into a comfortable chair. Perhaps your restless mind makes you keep diaries, recording events or sorting out the intricacies of internal states and moods. Or you are constantly writing something on scraps of paper, trying not to miss a valuable thought. Then you are on the right track. It's time to make mastering the word a profession.
Why I want to become a writer
Usually, the ability to write is manifested from childhood. The future writer, sometimes not even connecting his hobby with the profession, loves humanitarian subjects, participates in literary competitions and school performances, writes poetry, prose, scripts.
When a child wants to become a writer, parents are not always happy. What kind of profession is this? Is she able to feed? Only a few become successful writers, but what about the rest? How to live on penny royalties? Worried about the future of their child, they often dissuade him from "reckless" step.
But this is a desire to be reckoned with, because it does not arise by chance. Its reason is in the properties of the psyche. If there is such a desire, it means that there are abilities to realize it in the best way. And the sooner you begin to develop these abilities, the greater the likelihood of future success.
Sound vector
Writing is research.
You start from scratch and learn as you write.
E. L. Doctorow, American writer
Yuri Burlan's training "System Vector Psychology" reveals to us the nature of people who have an innate inclination to write. These are people with a sound vector. They are attracted by the study of the metaphysical nature. What is behind the screen of the physical world? What is the human soul? How is everything connected in this world? Where do we come from? Where we are going? What is the meaning of our movement?
Sound scientists are philosophers, seekers, researchers. Thought, idea is a product of their reflections. The written word is a tool that allows you to convey your idea of the world, emerging plots to the reader. Sometimes this is difficult, because sometimes there are no words to express what the powerful abstract intelligence of the sound engineer creates or perceives. And this is a special pleasure - to pick up words, put them in an understandable and harmonious form, touch the living with the accuracy of description. Just as a strong man, pumping his muscles, feels special pleasure when they are filled with firmness and strength, so the writer enjoys training the muscles of his mind, putting words into sentences, stories, novels.
Deprive a sound person, who naturally feels the desire to write, of this opportunity, and you will get an unhappy person who has lost the meaning of life, suffocating under the burden of fruitless thoughts that enslaved their creator.
Thoughts that a cow has milk should be given. Otherwise, it hurts from the endless internal dialogue bursting with its head.
So, if you feel the urge to write, don't delay, start right now.
I want to become a writer - where to go?
Writing to your desk or for yourself is not an option. You need to write for people. Any talents are given to us in order to give them to society. The writer is no exception. But where do you start? Is it possible to learn to write or is it a talent, a gift that is given from God?
Talent and gift. If there is no desire, the properties of the sound vector, there will be no writer. But any talent can be honed, made impeccably accurate, brilliant. And this is daily work, effort, study.
The reader does not care where you studied and what kind of education you have. It is important for him that you are interesting to read. But, of course, additional education will not hurt - it will help develop literacy, teach you how to create a text structure, hone your style, and broaden your horizons.
In humanitarian universities, look for specialties: applied philology, philology, literary creation, literary worker, playwright, film dramatist. But express education in the form of various online courses, webinars on writing, journalism, creative writing, and attending writing conferences is also suitable.
What needs to be developed for a person who wants to become a writer
To understand what needs to be learned, in which direction to move, let's see what qualities the author should have.
Concentration of thought. This is the ability of the sound vector. It is the sound people who are most capable of this with the correct development.
It can be difficult to concentrate during stress or trauma. Thought spontaneously clings to internal negative states, a person cannot find the meaning of life, as a result, depression arises, which is extremely undesirable for a writer.
It is better to concentrate outside: observe life, people, collect material for reflection from the surrounding world. More ways to improve concentration of thought are described in this article.
Observation, ability to communicate, interest in people. This important ability for a writer stems from his desire to understand the world around him and himself in the end.
By nature, a sound engineer is an introvert, but the goal of his development is extraversion - the ability to deeply understand the psyche of people. Only in this case he acquires the ability to believably and accurately describe people, the causes and consequences of the phenomena taking place.
Sometimes observation is a developed talent. Such perspicacious writers include, for example, Lyudmila Ulitskaya. The characters of the heroes of her works exactly fit into the vectors of the psyche, and the reader can easily recognize the sound engineer, the owner of the urethral vector or the anal-visual “good boy”. The novel "Perfume" because so accurately describes the olfactory vector of Grenouille, that the author Patrick Suskind himself is its owner. Haruki Murakami is convinced that if he did not have time to observe life, he would not be able to take place as a writer.
I am in love with life, with its strokes, with its stunning inspirational fantasy. Life is a great thing.
Dina Rubina *
The best understanding of people is provided by the training "System-vector psychology". For a writer, this is an irreplaceable encyclopedia of knowledge about the human soul. Any work written on the basis of systemic observations becomes objective and reliable. After all, a system writer knows exactly what the owner of this or that vector is thinking about, what his habits are, what keywords he most often uses.
Vocabulary. There is no writer without a rich vocabulary. And it is formed exclusively through reading literature. Reading for a person who wants to become a writer is the beginning of beginnings. Of course, first of all, a child should read a lot. But an adult, especially a writer, needs to constantly refresh, replenish his vocabulary through reading.
Imagination, fantasy, sensuality. These qualities are more related to the visual vector. This is the potential that is inherent in him from birth, but may not be developed. The recipe for development is the same - reading classical literature in childhood, especially for compassion, when the story of the heroes makes the reader sympathize and cry. Tears of empathy reveal the soul, sensitivity to the pain of other people. It is advisable for children to read books without pictures, so that they themselves draw in their imagination the pictures that the author describes.
It is much more difficult for an adult to develop sensuality, imagination. But you can reveal feelings through communication with people, a sincere interest in their problems and troubles, in the scenarios of their lives. In some genres, a writer cannot take place without a developed visual vector, for example, in lyrics, melodrama, love story, fairy tale, fantasy. Only a spectator's rich imaginative thinking is able to create the most incredible fairy-tale worlds filled with paintings and colors that are not in reality. Only a powerful palette of feelings can truly touch the heart of a reader.
When I’m working on the book’s finale, I stop sleeping, I drink a double portion of blood pressure pills, the children know that they cannot come to us, my husband doesn’t bother me, he only looks to keep me alive.
Dina Rubina *
Perseverance. If we talk about a writer in the traditional sense of the word, then perseverance, of course, is needed. To conduct a scrupulous, deep and precise study of the topic you are going to cover, to write a long novel with many details, means spending tens of hours at the computer, in immobility and concentration. Only the owner of the anal vector is capable of this. However, this quality is innate. It is impossible to develop it if this vector is not in the psyche.
If there is also a skin vector, it is more difficult to sit still, but this does not mean that it is impossible to write. The owner of the anal-cutaneous combination of vectors can master short forms - stories, essays, news in journalism, commercial texts that will lie in the area of interest of the cutaneous vector. Success, money, benefit, benefit, everything new fascinates the leatherworker.
The breadth of views. The writer must be aware of what is happening in the world. He needs to constantly read, learn. It is good to be an expert in any field. For example, Bulgakov, Chekhov were doctors. Experts make good journalists.
A writer is a person who constantly carries a notepad and a pen or makes notes on the phone about what he is observing, what he thinks about what he is observing.
In terms of the training "System Vector Psychology", it is desirable for a modern writer to be a polymorph - the owner of several vectors, which gives him the necessary breadth of perception of life, interests, views and abilities.
The desire to deeply understand the human soul, to see the connections of phenomena, the meaning of everything that happens gives a sound vector. The visual vector helps to make the work filled with exciting emotion, to hook it into the living, to change the mood, to leave a powerful aftertaste from the text. The ability to analyze and check information, structure the text sets the anal vector. The skin vector helps to maintain the logic of the text, to see the causes and effects, to precisely lead the reader to the goal.
Literacy. It’s better not to tell Yuri Burlan why a writer needs literacy: “Literacy is not to write without mistakes, but to live without mistakes, in order to accurately collaborate with other people, to create error-free relationships and interactions”.
I want to become a writer - where to start?
There are quite a few genres of literature. It is very important to decide at the very beginning what genre you want to create. After all, you need to write about what inspires, then there will be a spark of your interest in the text, which will carry the reader along with it.
If you have not yet decided on the genre, you need to understand yourself, what kind of person you are, what interests you. So, the owner of the sound vector is usually carried away by science fiction, literature filled with psychologism, philosophy, complex abstract texts that force the brain to turn on.
A person with a visual vector reads fairy tales, fantasy, children's books, romance novels, melodramas with pleasure, which means he is able to write them successfully. Big novels, historical works, analytics - the path of the owner of the anal vector. Detectives, adventure novels will go well with a combination of anal and skin vectors, like Georges Simenon's.
If you have not yet decided on the genre, think in what form you would like to create. Make a list of authors writing in different genres, read them, try to write in their style first. Gradually you will find what is closer to you, what style of writing suits you.
When you decide, start writing. Write, write and write. The writing skill is developed, like other skills, by constant, daily work.
Find critics, editors to help you see your flaws. Let's read your works to friends and family. Just ask for an honest assessment. Chat with like-minded people, get advice, brainstorm. An example of successful collective work of writing people is the library of the portal "System-Vector Psychology", in which the authors create a new word in psychology. This is the best implementation of the sound vector, prevention of depression.
Start with simple forms - social media posts, personal blogging. Watch your readers' reactions. If you are an expert in a particular field, write articles for magazines and portals for a fee. Then move on to more complex and voluminous forms, to the publication of books, if such a desire arises. Moreover, today anyone can publish an e-book and sell it online.
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The modern world is changing the attitude towards writing. Now a person who wants to become a writer has many more opportunities than even 10 years ago. Writing talent can be applied not only in the traditional direction - creating paper books and articles for newspapers and magazines. You can write anywhere and in different forms, from Internet posts to epic works published in electronic form. You can create a novel with a continuation on Yandex Zen or scripts for TV series.
Applied literature is in great demand today - teaching, helping to solve problems. And although writing is already predicted an imminent end, shifting this function to artificial intelligence, people who create ideas, create a new reality (as science fiction writers predicted the modern world with its space flights, television and accessible video communication), educate generations through the moral, penetrating into the soul word will always be in demand. Moreover, they already today determine the direction of development of our civilization.
The first step into the craft of writing can be made right now, at the free online training "System-Vector Psychology", which reveals life scenarios and provides rich material for the study of the world and man. Register for the training and start writing a new novel of your life.
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