Let's Get Creative!!!!!

Hi all! Apologies for such long silence from my part. 2010 has been partly occupying my time. Well anyway, here's some tips to a writing, especially for bloggers out there :)

Now, when you write in your blog, you've gotta decide who you think you are talking with: is it simply implying the content for you to let go of your feelings? Or are you sharing your day or thoughts in it with your readers?

The tips are, when you are "talking" to your readers, it's necessary to use the voice "you" so your readers know that it's them you are talking with. Of course you use "I" or "me" as showing that you are "involved" in that writing, especially when you are giving your opinion or suggestions or random ideas.

Now, how do you deliver thoughts in your writing? Let me share how I do mine. I don't particularly use any pronouns, unless the anonymous party introduced carries a gender in particular. I usually use anonymous subjects as "one" or "someone" or even "somebody", followed with the appropriate pronouns according to gender. I use "thing" or "this" or "that" to apply to objects in my writings.

Nevertheless, surely you can include the pronoun "you" in between, especially when you intend to involve or include your readers into your thoughts. For example:

* I once came across a scene when someone carefully sneaked in a bottle of perfumed talcum into his jacket. Nobody seemed to notice, but me. I looked around but my mum was too far away with her trolley of our shopping lists. When I turned around, the man with the black leather jacket was walking away, zipping it up covering what seemed to be the thing he had just stolen.

Here I used "I" and "me", involving me as the writer as well as the character in my story. Other characters are my mum and a stranger, introduced as "someone" and later on as "he", "his" and "the man". Now, shall we see how you as the reader is included in my story here:

* Have you ever encountered such experience? I was little, about 9 or 10 at that time. I remember the feeling. I was scared and unsure of what to do. What would you do if you were in my shoes? Having such emotions, I guess you would do the same as I did; keeping it silent and let him go leaving the store.

So, how do you feel reading the second part now? Were you answering those questions while reading it? If you did, then, you were part of my writing :)

There you go! Keep those words coming and yes! Involve your readers in your up-coming writings :)