#1In simple words, ‘Content Writing’ is a process of writing content, of a
specific form, format and style.
#2They key purpose of content writing is to enable the access of two-way communication.
The goals, for which, commonly include communicating an idea, promoting a
product or service, telling a story and/or offering entertainment, through the
medium of written word.
#3Typically, the hamburger-menu of a ‘content writing process’ is composed
of various sub-processes such as writing, editing, proofreading and publishing.
#4Also, the content writing process is not something which is standalone.
Usually, it is accompanied by a variety of visual communication material as
well. This material can range from illustrations to graphics to animations to
high-quality images, photographs & videos.
#5The utility of Content Writing is not limited to a full-fledged business
but as equally for a website, small-scale trading store, restaurants, professional blogs, and likewise too.
#6 You can write the content by yourself (DIY), or you may want to hire a
professional writer for the same.
The ancient Indian sages say that a word is
not just a word, but a form of energy which carries within it the potential of
transformation.
It is only through the words that people
like writers, poets and storytellers are able to weave magic through their
writings, poems and stories!
#2 GRAMMAR IMPLIES ‘THE LOGIC OF
LANGUAGE’!
In Indian texts, grammar is referred to, by
the terms such as “Vyakaran”.
The Sanskrit word Vyakaran implies separation, distinction, discrimination,
analysis, explanation, logic" of something.
And so, Grammar can be understood as the science
of studying the logic or the structure of language!
#3 THE SCIENCE OF GRAMMAR IS
APPROX. 3000 YEARS OLD!
Grammar is one of the most ancient sciences
dating back to the Vedic period. This field of grammar also makes up one of the
six Vedangas in the scriptures of Vedas or Vedic Studies.
Grammar or Vyakaran is related to the
fourth Vedanga of Vedas – this Vedanga is named as ‘Nirukta’…
#4 SANSKRIT & GREEK MARK THE
ORIGINS OF GRAMMAR!
Most of the words and grammar are derived
from two main languages that is, Sanskrit and Greek!
#5 THE WORD “ALPHABET” IS DERIVED
FROM FIRST TWO CHARACTERS OF GREEK LANGUAGE!
The word “alphabet” is derived from the
combination of the first two characters of Greek language, that is, “alpha” and “beta”!
Alphabet
= Alpha (alpha) + bet (beta)
#6 GRAMMAR IS THE SCIENCE OF STUDYING
DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF REALITY & LIFE!
The popular linguist & writer, Ẓevi Scharfstein said that, the field of grammar is much more than merely
a study of words and relations between words.
Rather, grammar is understood to be the
study of reality itself as well as the relations between different dimensions
of reality.
According to Vedas, the main purpose of the
field of grammar is to utilize the medium of “words” to their best possible
effective means in order to realize the underlying principle of all reality and
to break the chain of ignorance.
Also known as shabd-yoga, the field of
grammar was originally aimed at understanding the root and significance of the
word itself. By understanding the root of words and the fundamental structure
of language, we can also understand, and thereupon, realize the fundamental
principle of life itself.
#7 IN ENGLISH, EACH CONSONANT CARRIES
ITS OWN SOUND UNLIKE HINDI OR SANSKRIT!
In English, each consonant has its own
sound like B(bee), K(kay), F(eff), S(ess); unlike
Sanskrit, where, each consonant has its sound ending in अ(a), क(ka), प(pa), र(ra), श (sha), स(sa),ह(ha) etc.
#8 GRAMMATICAL THEORY IS NOT LIMITED
TO LANGUAGE. IT ALSO CONNECTS TO MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS & EVEN QUANTUM
PHYSICS!
If you’d look into the origins of grammatical theory, you’d discover
that, it offers direct access to anyone to understand and gain insight into the
plane of alignment, where maths combines music, analytical combines intuitive,
spirituality combines science.
You’d be fascinated to discover that most of the computer languages
have their origins in the Sanskrit Grammar.
#9 SOUND IS THE SUBTLEST ELEMENT OF
GRAMMAR!
According to Quantum physics, each object is made up of some unique or
composite pattern of vibration.
Sanskrit’s consonants too are rooted in the root sound vibrations of
the universe – the vowels and consonants of Sanskrit are made up of these core
sounds – known as bijas – ancient
sages meditated on perceiving these bija sounds and gained inherent intuition
of the bija sounds of everything.
Sanskrit word is not only a label for an object but a reflection of the
bija sound vibration composing that object in its fundamental reality…
Sound is the subtlest element of grammar – manipulation of sounds and
words can allow the manipulation of matter – the reason why mantras are recited
during prayer or for peace of mind. It also relates to the various vibrational
frequencies mentioned in the field of quantum physics.
#10 SANSKRIT IS THE ONLY PERFECTED
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD!
NASA declares Sanskrit as the “the only
unambiguous language on the planet”
Also called as the “Perfected Language” or
the “Self-made Language”, Sanskrit is said to be the number one language to be
learned to gain the understanding of linguistics as well as computers. It is the basis
of many common languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi as well as computer
languages
Hundreds if not thousands of Sanskrit words
are found in Oxford dictionary today
#11 NO WORD HAS A FIXED MEANING!
Each word has a meaning
However, the meaning of a word is not
something which is constant. It fluidly changes from moment-to-moment and from context-to-context.
#12 SYLLABLES ARE BEATS OF THE
WORD. PHONEMES ARE SOUNDS OF A WORD!
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound.
A syllable is the smallest unit of
pronunciation, consisting of a pair of a vowel and surrounding consonant(s).
A word is a collection of phonemes.
For example: The word “egg” consists of one
syllable “aig”, but two phonemes “ai + ga”
#13 HUMANS HAVE A UNIVERSAL
GRAMMAR!
There are thousands of kinds of grammatical theories corresponding to
the thousands of kinds of languages and sciences. According to the eminent
linguist, philosopher and scientist Noam Chmosky, there is no one rule which
underlies grammar in general, however, at the same time, all kinds of grammar
do have an underlying invisible grammar which he termed as the Universal Grammar.
This is a theoretical concept of grammar which discusses the genetic component
of language and proposes that human brain contains an innate mental grammar
that helps humans acquire language.
Just the way as kids intuitively understand, learn and speak language
without any technical knowledge of grammar.
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with which
we can craft jeweled ornaments and build towering castles; putting together the
pieces of our fragmented human selves;
and carving
a rich spectrum of all those tunes and rhythms
which cause
our heart to pulsate into a feeling - deep, intense and alive.
Though
vocabulary is not the first of things that makes one a good writer,
but it is a
decoration that surely embellishes the tapestry of one’s writing, whether it is
poetry or short story or novel or even a basic article.
Famous
writers speak of words
as being
those little gifts that we not only enjoy & relish,
but also reproduce
& share in ways
which make
millions of humans to think, feel and wonder.
So, in this
video show, you’re going to know and learn about an incredible tool related to
all things words; a tool that you’ll find to be utterly useful and interesting
in your own writing practice.
This tool
is called as
‘Visual
Wordboard’!
Overview: What is a Visual
Wordboard?
As its name
suggests, a ‘Visual Wordboard’ is a visual style word-based board created
specifically for the purpose of learning, storing, collecting & applying
new words in one’s writing.
Purpose & 5 utilities of
creating a Visual Wordboard
Typically,
a wordboard turns out to be a close variation of a moodboard,
a tool
which is mostly employed for design & art.
But when
coming to it in the scope of writing too,
a wordboard
is a tool of utter significance.
Here are
five exciting ways in which a wordboard turns to be a tool of function & utility.
#1A wordboard enables the visual
presentation of an idea, story or concept that you are writing about.
#2A wordboard is useful to present the
“feel” or the “essence” of an idea, whether it is a story, a topic or a book
that you’re writing.
#3A wordboard acts as a visual
depiction to explain the details of a story, scene, film, play, character or
idea in a snapshot or in a flash.
#4A wordboard is advantageous for
brainstorming ideas, such as, a setting for a scene, a character in the story,
poetry on a topic or theme, a blog post series etc.
#5A wordboard is a handy tool to capture
the words, phrases & shortform notes summarized from a book or articles you
read; a lecture you heard; an audiobook or a podcast you listened to; a film or
a video you watched.
7 Ideas on How to create a visual
wordboard
#1Select a Medium For Creating A
Wordboard
📚 Start by selecting the medium
best-suited to you for creating a wordboard.
📚You can create wordboards either in
a physical format (using a notebook, a set of prints, or a repurposed old book);
or in a digital format (docs, sheets, pdfs, images, or apps)
#2Create a Wordboard Journal!
📚 You can also dedicate an entire
notebook or a series of notebooks to create your own wordboard journals!
📚 You may also like to call it as your
Personal Wordbook, a term that is commonly used in the writers’ community!
#3Select a Theme for Your Wordboard
📚 You can create a wordboard in almost
any theme you want.
📚 Create a wordboard in your notebook
or computer by randomly jotting down all the words you like or you come across
or all the new words that you are learning or all the words that appear to
catch your interest while reading books, articles or while browsing anything on
the web.
📚Arrange the words in your wordboard
according to alphabets.
📚 If you are working on a writing
project, then you can create a wordboard specifically for the purpose of this
project; that is, by creating a wordboard of all the words that you’d like to
use or consider using in this project such as in a short story, in a novel or in
a longform guide.
📚 Create a wordboard based on the
theme of a particular form or style of writing. For example, “A wordboard for
blog writing” or “A wordboard for writing product descriptions” or “A wordboard
for Copywriting”.
📚 Create a wordboard on a theme based
on a niche or a genre. Such as, “A Wordboard for Fiction - Fantasy” or “A
Wordboard for Fiction - Romance” or “A Wordboard for Travel Writing” or “A
Wordboard for Web Content Writing” etc.
📚 Create a wordboard with ideas for
all the words to use while writing on a specific topic, which can be anything
from a blog title to a book, a movie, a writing prompt etc.
#4Create a List or a Glossary With
Wordboards
📚 Writers very well understand the
significance of writing/having lists and glossaries.
📚 Write your lists and glossaries in a
wordboard style with words/phrases arranged in a board style instead of a
tabular fashion.
📚 Imagine the notes pintucked in the
notice boards of your school, college or office.
📚 You can also create wordboards for catalogs,
& encyclopedic glossaries such as rhyming words, special dictionaries, thesaurus,
word groups etc.
#5Create a ‘Words+Visuals’ Style
Wordboard
📚 A Wordboard doesn’t have to be
limited to only words.
📚 Accompany your wordboards with
pictures, doodles, graphics, photographs, illustrations & other assortment
of visual elements to accompany the words in your wordboard
#6Select a Design For Your Wordboard
📚 Design your wordboard in a
Kindergarten-style Word Wall
📚 Design your wordboard like a Word
Family Wall, that
is, words grouped/bunched together into categories and pasted/tucked into your
notebook in bundles
📚 Create a Color-coded wordbook
Select
a colour theme or a colour palette to create your wordboard.
You
may like to use Sticky Notes for offering the colourful feel to your wordboard
📚 Create a wordboard with Flash Cards
& Journal Pockets
Design
a wordboard by making word flashcards, and by inserting them into little
journal pockets in your notebook
📚 Design a wordboard in digital style
Digitally
design your wordboard with the help of any design tool of your choice
📚 Design a Wordboard in a Word Cloud
Style
Word
clouds are literally clickable wordboards on the web. Design
a wordboard in the style of a web-based word clouds.
You
will find word clouds in tons of websites & blogs that usually displaying
keywords and tags
#7Create a Moodboard-style Wordboard
📚Write down words in a stream-of-consciousness
writing manner and when you’re done, create a wordboard out of it!
📚 A great way to curate, keepsake
& browse through your daily writing in a compact & picturesque manner!
other names/variations of a
wordboard
Wordboard
Wordboard Journal
Word Palette
Word Wall
Word Family
Word Flash Cards/Word Cards
Wordbook
Word Cloud
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In this video, I present seven short poems featuring words which I have written with much depth of attention, fun and curiosity. In different points in time, of course. In addition to stirring your soul, these poems can act as some excellent prompts for your own self-reflection or daily writing practice. Plus, they are super fun and enjoyable to read. Which one turns out to be your favorite; you can share with me in the comments box below!
#1A drop in the ocean is lonely and
will ever be.
Water in the drop is not, and will never be.
#2Bodies everywhere
are mirrors
of certain parts
of my infinite mind
revealing to me
the indicators
of my own darknesses,
sometimes, my beloved,
and sometimes, a creature unloved.
#3When living takes much of your life,
when life appears to die a little,
let life come to living,
and let living die a little.
#4The worst thing about the best of
things is that they do not remain the best forever. The best thing about the
worst of things is that they do not remain the worst forever.
#5Discovering the positive in a
negative appearance can turn out to be a negative thing sometimes. Discovering
the negative in a positive appearance can turn out to be a positive thing
sometimes. Knowing the positivity in a positive is only possible when you know
the negativity in a negative. Knowing the negative in a negative is possible
only when you know the negative in a positive and positive in a negative.
#6If you turn right, don’t look what’s
left
If you don’t turn right, what’s left will take
you to what’s right.
Even after turning right, if you are left with
what doesn’t seem right,
Be alright, what’s left is left only because it
is right for you.
What’s right will come right away if you
rightly look at what’s left.
Ray Bradbury is the name of one of the most enthusiastic storytellers and fiction writers of 20th century. Most of his novels are written in the themes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
He was also known to share openly, his knowledge of the art with young writers. Many of his teachings can be read in the form of short essays in his book Zen in the Art of Writing.
While I was reading this book myself, I came across the word ‘Gusto’ for the very first time through the initial chapters of the book. Its not like that I was awestruck, at once, reading this simple word, howsoever, the way he writes about it, playing emphasis upon it, I could feel the enthusiasm that Mr. Bradbury is known to express in his novels.
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto. — Ray Bradbury
There are plenty of lessons I have learned from reading his books and writings. In this piece, I’d stick to eleven of these, mostly, pertaining to the craft of writing. So, let’s get started!
#1 Word Associations
Word Associations, he said, helped him a great deal in writing short stories. “Just write any word that comes to your head, and soon you’ll start to see a pattern in these lists. The moment you see a pattern, you have a story…” he says.
It was with great relief, then, that in my early twenties I floundered into a word-association process in which I simply got out of bed each morning, walked to my desk, and put down any word or series of words that happened along in my head. I would then take arms against the word, or for it, and bring on an assortment of characters to weigh the word and show me its meaning in my own life. An hour or two hours later, to my amazement, a new story would be finished and done. The surprise was total and lovely. I soon found that I would have to work this way for the rest of my life.
— Ray Bradbury
#2 The Ray Bradbury Challenge
Popularly known as The Ray Bradbury Challenge, this is a writing process that he would use to write his stories. Many, many writers following his generation, including Neil Gaiman, mentioned that the creative process of Mr. Bradbury inspired them to write some really good stories.
The challenge consists of two parts:
Part 1: Read Daily for 1000 Nights
Mr. Bradbury tells young writers to read three things each night: poetry, one short story and an essay. This, he said, adds beautiful material to your writing pieces.
Part 2: Write Lots and Lots of Short Stories (Precisely 52/year)
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row”,
he says to newbie writers.
Mr. Bradbury said that there was a psychological reason to go into this training writing for short stories: At the end of every week, the writer will feel a sense of achievement, because, as he says, “you’ll have done something.”
#3 Write with Joy
Mr. Bradbury shares that he never worked a day in his life; the joy of writing propelled him from day to day, and from year to year.
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My story ideas wake me”, he would say.
I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ray Bradbury
#4 Write Your Own Experiences
Mr. Bradbury mentions, when he was a boy, he met a young girl at the beach, who went into the water and never came back. Years later, when he was writing about this experience, tears followed through his eyes.
In order to get this essential emotional connect in our writing, it is always a great idea to write our own experiences.
#5 Add Movement to Stories
Breathe some movement into your stories. He says,
A story cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic. — Ray Bradbury
#6 Read Poetry every Day of your Life
Read poetry every day of your life, Mr. Bradbury tells writers.
Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. — Ray Bradbury
Poetry helps us pay attention to the details in our sensory experience. Emphasizing the importance of these sensory details, Mr. Bradbury writes,
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is there, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. — Ray Bradbury
#7 Have Wonder
Developing the innate childlike quality of wonder isn’t just a tool for writers, but a necessity. And why only writers, I feel that, it is a necessity for every human individual. Look what Mr. Bradbury had to say about this…
Fill your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. — Ray Bradbury
Locked into everything is a mystery. We then try to find, in any given age. You cannot grow up in a period and not be a child of your time. — Ray Bradbury
Another example through which he demonstrated the importance of having the quality of wonder, was in these verses. This is a verse from one of his unpublished but very famous poem ‘If Only We Had Taller Been’, that he recited in 1971 in a Mars mission of NASA.
Short man. Large dream.
I send my rockets forth,
between my ears,
Hoping an inch of Will is worth a pound of years.
- Ray Bradbury
#8 Develop a Good Sense of Metaphor
Read good stories, stories that have metaphor. — Ray Bradbury
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. — Ray Bradbury
#9 Be Spontaneous
In quickness and spontaneity is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping. — Ray Bradbury
#10 Quantity Over Quality
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the necessary work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality. How so? Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come. All arts, big and small, are the elimination of waste motion in favor of the concise declaration. The artist learns what to leave out. His greatest art will often be what he does not say, what he leaves out, his ability to state simply with clear emotion, the way he wants to go. The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers. — Ray Bradbury
I always say to students, give me four pages a day, every day. That’s three or four hundred thousand words a year. Most of that will be bilge, but the rest …? It will save your life! — Ray Bradbury
#11 Have Patience
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow. — Ray Bradbury
Ending with one of my favorite lines from Mr. Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine. It seems to me that this line describes so beautifully a fact of life. That, irrespective of whether I am able to see the beauty and vastness of life, it does exist. It’s already here. All we need to do is to shift the focus of our inner eyes…
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“It's not too bad when the sun's out,
but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” - JD Salinger
Just like
the sun in this quotation written by him, JD Salinger too was a man of privacy.
He would come out only when he felt like, which means not much if at all. Famous
for his square-shooting lines and a solitary lifestyle, Mr. Salinger produced a
slim yet rich body of work during his lifetime. Though, it is said that he
might have dozens of novels unpublished, still locked away in some nook of his
house. He is best remembered for his novel The
Catcher in the Rye, based on the loss of childhood innocence of a boy named
Holden Caufield and for a collection of short stories that featured his
fictional character sets called The Glass
Family.
JD Salinger’s Journey As a
Writer (in brief)
JD Salinger
began writing short stories during years of his secondary school. Thereafter,
stumbling and tripping from drama to business to theatre, Salinger finally
found his muse in language. Leaving his father’s meat-exporting business, he
paved his way into writing. Even though, he encountered many roadblocks
including the outbreak of World War II, unlike most soldiers who were impatient
in the environment of hither-tither, Salinger fought,
but he also wrote — and kept on writing constantly, from war’s start to war’s
finish. He stopped publishing his work in 1965 but his son Matt Salinger now
confirms that he never stopped writing till death.
With this,
we’re all good to step ahead and get started…
#1 Write From Your Heart
For Your Heart
Everybody
writes.
Out of
them, many are writers.
But what
sets apart a great writer from the rest is personal involvement and naked
spilling of one’s heart.
Mr.
Salinger too agrees with this point through these lines:
If you’re a writer, you should stew
in your own juices. - JD Salinger
I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my
own pleasure. - JD Salinger
#2 Focus on the character
Mr.
Salinger was known for diving deep into his characters and the relationships
between characters. Mostly, his writing appealed to young readers; catching and
mirroring the psyche of most teenagers; tethering and piercing into their
deepest passions and horrors – in the clearest and honest most way possible.
His writing
reflected a savvy insight spearheading straight into the emotional centre of
his readers making them pause and say, “Oh yeah, I connect with it!”
Say, for
instance, observe your reaction when you read this line:
Don't
ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. - JD Salinger
#3 Read, Read, Read a lot
Most great
writers appear to believe in reading as one of the best practices for writers.
And so did Mr. Salinger. See what he had to say about this...
I’m quite illiterate but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger
#4 Respect Your Individual Style
After a
while in his career, Mr. Salinger released the control of literary rules and
syntax. He wouldn’t write stories in conventional style. His fiction wasn’t
plot-driven but, rather, it would be embroidered out of many bits & pieces
of events, or moments taken in a span of time.
So, it is
appropriate to say that as writers, we should explore our own style. And despite
of our fears, we should respect the individuality of our writing voice.
An artist’s only
concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not
anyone else’s. - JD Salinger
You think of the book
you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. - JD Salinger
How do you know you’re
going to do something, until you do it? - JD Salinger
Most of the
times, thinking what people think about you is a sure-fire way to suppress your
writing voice…Mr. Salinger says,
One day a long time from now, you’ll cease to care
anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll
produce the work you are capable of.
#5 Write What You Feel. Feel What You Write.
Mr.
Salinger’s writings depicted a controlled yet beautiful and flowy expression of
emotional energy. His words are known to read with an ease of rhythm and stream
of feelings just melting away, while piercing the dark rails of brain’s psyche.
There is a subtle, invisible clarity of thought and emotion. Something, that doesn’t
feel boring even if you read it again and again.
Among other things, you’ll find that
you’re not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened
by the human behaviour. - JD Salinger
People never notice anything. - JD Salinger
I don’t exactly know what I mean by
that but I mean it. - JD Salinger
If you’re lonely like most writers
are, write your way out of it. - JD Salinger
#6 Discipline Discipline Discipline
Discipline
is crucial to strengthening our writing muscles. Mr. Salinger too has shared in
some of his interviews that he would start each morning
at 6, never later than 7. Also, he believed in utilizing his night time for
writing. While living with his two children in Manhattan, he would utilize the
hours of the night to write while his children were asleep
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
- J. D. Salinger
#7 Structure is important too!
Along with
the creative side of writing, things like organization, direction and structure
are important too. Consider, for instance, the filing system of Salinger. He would
keep a set of files, where a red dot meant ‘Under
progress’ and a green dot meant ‘Needs editing’.
What structures, systems & tools do you
use for your writing?
I think that one of these days…you’re going to have to find out
where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. - JD Salinger
#8 Enjoy your Life (Yes!)
Mr.
Salinger accompanied a smorgasbord of interests. He was a fan of spiritual
philosophies including Sufism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Vedanta. He was also a
regular practitioner of meditation. Apart from that, he liked whopper burgers,
Chinese food, roast beef and mashed potatoes. When organizing parties and
get-togethers, he would drink cold drink and eat wafers and chips with his
writer friends.
Mean to
say, explore life in all its glory. Especially if you are a writer. Hurray!
The true poet has no choice of material. The
material plainly chooses him, not he it. - JD Salinger
Ending
with…
this famous
quotation from Mr. Salinger’s novel,
What really knocks me out is a book that when you’re
all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of
yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like. That
doesn’t happen much, though. - JD Salinger
Upon finishing his novel, I felt just the
same for Mr. Salinger.
What all books of J. D. Salinger have you
read, if any? Tell me or suggest me a title for my reading list in the comments
below!
