Unable to create a
new blog – “You have too many blogs,” says Blogger.com
– I have decided to rename my old blog “The
Editor In Chief” to “The Editor In
Chief, For Writers” to encourage more people to write more for the better
of more people! (image
from sg.images.search.yahoo.com)
The clue there is
“encourage.” And you know whom I would like to encourage to write more? The
whole UP Los Baños! But especially
those currently connected with as well as the graduates of the College of Development Communication
(CDC).
Their
silence is defeaning!
CDC should be most
active in cultivating people’s talents of writing positively for Philippine
agriculture!
Like me, I write
about Regenerative Agriculture
(RA) despite the fact that my alma mater, University
of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), is ignoring it!!
The concept originated by Robert
Rodale of the Rodale Institute, RA is pro-poor: farmers and gardeners.
So why are UP Los Baños people not talking about it in their classes and works?
A writer should not be easily discouraged by others. In this new/old “revised” blog, I will be
offering many advices, plural, for writers and would-be writers. Here are the
first ones:
1. The art of writing is to share a part of
your soul with the world.
2. Write down your thoughts. Me, I have a
notebook ready in several places at home, each one with a writing pen. (When
that beautiful thought is gone, it’s gone!)
3. Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone
else’s Chapter 17.
4. One of the things that draws writers towards
writing is that they will get things right that they get wrong in real life.
5. You write for better, not for worse.
The only writer
you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday.
“You fail only if you stop
writing” – Ray Bradbury
“You can’t think yourself out
of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.” John
Rogers
To write is human, to edit is
divine” – Stephen King
“The scariest moment is
always just before you start” – Stephen King
“Start writing no matter
what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” Louis L’Amour
Of course, I am
still whom I call “The Editor In Chief”
but with a new self-declared mandate:
To encourage, help, inspire, people to write –
especially about science for the people. By science I mean: agriculture,
botany, forestry, plant breeding, zoology
– you know the rest associated with the general subject of Agriculture.
Since I had too many blogs, according to the feedback
of Blogspot.Com, I couldn’t create
any more blogs – I decided to rename my old blog, “The Editor In Chief” as “The
Editor In Chief For Writers.”
Slogan:
“If you can say it, you can write it!” (You may just need encouragement.)@517
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