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Why The Craft Of Writing Has Meaning
By Joe Vojt   
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Last edited: Monday, August 06, 2007
Posted: Monday, August 06, 2007

Believing in yourself is the biggest reward you can give to others.

Why The Craft Of Writing Has Meaning, Copyright 2007
Written by
Joe Vojt

The craft of writing is similar to any skill. Requirements only vary by the objectives utilized. Writing can be natural or driven by pure desire. Any career requires paying dues and finding a master is a kin to OJT (on the job training). Every writer has a technique to master his or her craft. As part of the mix, each vocation has countless variables. The field in reality is unlimited, some state it is luck, or working hard, or having the right connections, but politics round out the key factors.
Many profess, write, write, read, read, and with that discipline you round out the field by continuing regardless of consequences. So what makes a writer successful is it based on volume of sales, pride of accomplishment or one perfect master piece. For me it’s similar to wining lotto, one in a million, but if you don’t play, you can never win.
Writing follows the equivalent rule, if you don’t write you will not succeed in seeing your work in print. But getting published is comparable to only getting three numbers that is a low payback as to financial rewords. Four numbers brings you up to selling over a 100 books. Then if you get five numbers you are well over the norm, but there can be at least one shot of hitting the big one. But the bottom line is the love of writing. This can be canceled based on how the control the editors, publishers, and agents visualize your creation.
The difference between gambling and the creativity of writing is learning to adjust and change accordingly. Here the skills you attained during the process of learning your craft. When you first place words into the computer or on a blank page, it establishes your style. Becoming captured by the skillfulness is all consuming and it is driven within the psyche of being creative.
Everyday is a new opportunity to excel. With it, comes joy and disappointment, but the gratification over rides the downside of every career. It takes time with a certain commitment that is like love. Many things have been written about both, but once you know what you feel, you on your way toward satisfaction. With love you give and take with it you blossom into a happy couple regardless of what stands in your way.
Writing has the same format; you change and adjust accordingly to what the market will accept. Teaming within this concept is the ever on going transition. Having ideas are like leaves in a tree, they are endless until the fall winds and winter season. Most but not always is a tree bare of leaves. Some remain not necessarily green but still a leaf. Writing goes through similar transitions, at times you run into certain roadblocks. My attitude regarding this it is just another opportunity to move forward. Looking back at times helps you to move ahead. Like it has been said, you are your own worst enemy, but at the same time your best friend.
Many years have passed and I still feel like I have never started in what has been my passion in crafting words that can stand by themselves at the same time be proud of that accomplishment. Passing query letters from publishers and agents have surpassed all explanations. Each has a meaning, few if any responded but that is another answer to understand.
Questioning your resolve for the next letter and you keep directing your craft into new directions. During the writing process that can consume most of your time, you feel like it is the only method. What I missed is simple because gaining the upper hand in the publishing world is every writer’s target.
Having ideas has never been an issue. My thoughts will out live me based on the concept that I will never be able to put those dreams into text. Thoughts come without effort, so the writing part comes straightforward. Making the words, work for the ultimate prize becomes the challenge.
Self editing is a difficult task but at the same time worthwhile. Examples are bountiful based on many years of inputs. Publishers and agents always have a unique approach to what their feelings are about the written words. Publishers and agents objectives are to attain a profit profile. At the same time, they miss the written objectives.
Case in point, I used the inputs from these sources and changed the novels but could did not meet the next reviewer. After many of these interactions I stopped, put my novel to rest. After few months, I picked it up and then quickly realized what I followed or let to believe was the correct direction left me shocked.
Reading all the changes I lost my voice and the many months of changes became misplaced in the spirit of what I had worked on for years. My decision was straight forward I deleted all those months of changes. I started with my original, which was my comfort zone and began self editing.
Learning first hand there never is a perfect solution, because every person has his or her private view. Putting in the effort and learning the craft requires on the job training. In my case, it has been true . Writing continues to be my passion and becoming flexible is just a small part of the big picture.
Many years of searching and living with the massive ideas allows the mind to remain creative. The discovery of what was missing was simple. What is currently selling and why can’t I reach that cloud. Overlooking the obvious sometimes takes time and a hit on the head psychologically is never easy. Accepting allows you to move forward. I began my new OJT by accepting my weakest area and that was reading books.
This was purely by accident, but it has finally completed the last segment of my profession. It began last July 2007 and it is now a year later. I have read over thirty paperback novels. Finishing approximately one book a week was the goal. It has rewarded me in ways I would never have anticipated. While reading I take notes that can be utilized in my future writing, but it truly comes in handy for the self editing process.
I targeted my focus on certain mystery writers from the 2006 to date. The library is an ideal source of varied literature. The craft of my writing covers all the new ideas that can be blended into my endless composition. Will this make me a better craftsman? You bet and taking the higher road to success is every ones objectives. Writing is hard work, but when your passion is driving this course, creations flower like every spring of your life.
But more important for me is to be myself and create what comes from the heart and that continues. Some writing gets lost in transition of what our goals are. Dedication to this commitment comes easy and rejections guide your talent into a higher atmosphere. Have you ever seen the clouds in the blue background, you can never see two identical forms? So how is success measured you might ask. For me the accomplishment of having endless ideas that are a part of my life and the enjoyment of crafting the written word completes what life represents.
Would I feel better being a successful published writer? I am a successful published writer and being happy can only be measured not by volume but by the enthusiasm of being me. Having the ability of endless ideas is a gift. Having the talent to put words with meaning is the challenge. Are the words acceptable only if you can break down the so called gate keepers? That is the tribulation of this struggle. Who will turn the key for any writer to enter the elite location of success? Would it really make a difference? Like everything in life is a risk. For most of us, we don’t see it as an annoyance only an approach to be you and be open.
Have you ever wondered why nobody can predict the weather? Even with all the modern technology Mother Nature is in control. Writing to be successful follows the identical track. It might not be Mother Nature, but divine providence controls the results. We live thought the variety of weather conditions and accepted it as natural. Success in writing regardless of the writer’s ranked is an achievement. We all have our own thought about what accomplishment means. With that, we continue or find another avocation.
The true spirit of a compassionate writer commits with in his or her own destiny. Follow your dream and it will lead you to the Promised Land. Never give into what you are not. Faith is in the words. Never allow false actions to misdirect your path, because you are your own discipline.
When the day ends thank your faith. When you wake in the morning, a new beginning will drive your words into that clear, cloudy, stormy, or bright sunshine. This is what makes you different. Believing in yourself is the biggest reward you can give to others. On no account let your dreams fall into the clouds of confusion. Never giving into failure allows success to be within your reach. Keep writing, reading and writing.