Struggling Writer

I tutor Bloggers privately; a few students that don’t see themselves as a struggling writer or business owners who are interested in setting up a Blog to support their business.  However, when they show me their sites I analyze their writing skills and look at the visual and marketing content of their websites. And I see all the mistakes. I’m not saying one shouldn’t try for fear of not measuring up— even if the writing is poor it takes courage to venture into new territory and I applaud those who do. Similarly, I tell my Blogging students that their writing skills will improve and they will gain an audience if they continue to post relevant blogging content.

It’s not possible to do something every day and not become better, so if you have a goal in mind, practice working at it and you will get there. It takes time, a lot of time, and most of all a commitment, but someday you will be able to check that goal off your list as an accomplishment and that will bring you a great deal of self-satisfaction.

Things for Bloggers to note:

It’s always a good idea to try something new.

Even with concerns and insecurities of the unknown if you push through them it will be thrilling and may awaken something inside you—a place of interest.

Inspiration can be found anywhere.

If you look and listen to life with clear eyes you will find answers in the most common of places.  The key is to be alert.

Everyone has something to teach you, but it’s up to you to learn.

Each person comes into your life with a lesson and vice versa. It may be positive or not. Either way you will learn and grow from experiences and relationships with others.

Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s success. 

That’s Blog envy. It will rob your creative desire.  You may read other blogs who have many more followers and sponsors. It’s a waste of time. I know this one first-hand; I have a student who compares his writing —a new and occasional hobby —to mine.  I’m not in competition with anyone other than against myself. Writing is not a sport but an art.  I’ve continuously worked at it and have been at it much, much longer.   

You will get better with practice.  

I didn’t make this rule, the Almighty did and even he can’t change it now.

Never love a wild thing

This afternoon while taking a walk in the light mist I saw an alley cat, huddling up against a wall, bringing to mind the cat without a name in Breakfast at Tiffany's. http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Tiffanys/tiffanys.htm This month is the film's 50^th anniversary which is being remastered as a DVD release.

Apparently with Truman Capote's success came social celebrity. He mingled with the social elite, and was seen at the best parties, clubs, and restaurants. His novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), took much of its inspiration from those experiences.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story is about a struggling writer Paul Varjak that moves into a New York swank East Side apartment building (from the generosity of his female, married benefactor) and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOByH_iOn88

Capote lobbied for Marilyn Monroe in the lead, whom he deemed more suitable for the role, much to his displeasure it went to the aristocratic Audrey Hepburn, to play the rural- Texas-born Holly Golightly that he created. He even went as far as to say that Paramount double-crossed him in every way. Not a bad outcome for an act of deceit.