What A Prerequisite For Being A Good Writer
“How awe-inspiring they write on lofty topics, so subtle, so hard to understand. And it was published by well-known publishers and translated into foreign languages. Is that what is called transcendental, something outside the human mind who is not born a poet or a philosopher? What a prerequisite for being a good writer. I am but capable of writing about daily life, in plain, easy language and I haven’t succeeded to find me a publisher.” So I said to Pak Arif.
“But if there were some people who loved your home-page,” he said, “though it was just one or loved just one of your writings - as you once said before -, you should be happy as he loved it despite the simple topics on daily life, in common language. That’s a lot. Good, beautiful writing could also be expressed in plain language and written by an unknown author.”
And I was comforted.
January 2010
“How awe-inspiring they write on lofty topics, so subtle, so hard to understand. And it was published by well-known publishers and translated into foreign languages. Is that what is called transcendental, something outside the human mind who is not born a poet or a philosopher? What a prerequisite for being a good writer. I am but capable of writing about daily life, in plain, easy language and I haven’t succeeded to find me a publisher.” So I said to Pak Arif.
“But if there were some people who loved your home-page,” he said, “though it was just one or loved just one of your writings - as you once said before -, you should be happy as he loved it despite the simple topics on daily life, in common language. That’s a lot. Good, beautiful writing could also be expressed in plain language and written by an unknown author.”
And I was comforted.
January 2010
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