On Writing

Writing is important to a 3-year old child; it is where people usually base that a person is already literate. To a 3-year old child, writing is just having a pen and doing some strokes on a sheet of paper. But what is really writing to a student or to a media practitioner?

As a student and future media practitioner, writing is very important. Writing is a tool for expressing our feelings, ideas and reactions. It is a powerful tool for a media practitioner for it may create great impact from the public. To a media practitioner, his writings identify or reflect his personality on how he sees things and also writings may be the things that would come back to him, often times are from critics. It is sad to know that what one write may not be all good enough for others. I remember I read a book where the author shared that, his writings sometimes are slapped off his face because of rejections slips or a manuscript with many things to be edited. It’s not the paper that is going to trash but his own ideas, the ideas that took him hours to think about. True that writing is important because it is the outcome of what your mind tells you in a particular time.

For me, to write is beyond just writing. If a thing pops out my mind, I definitely need to write it because it may be gone in a second. It is important for me because it is used to catch ideas and to express it the way we interpret it.