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Is this worth a read?

来源：洪恩论坛 Canuck's Comments

日期：2005-11-30

作者：wenxiayue

阅读：1384 次

Is this worth a read?

---to friends who just began their writing path and myself who just found it

Whenever I turn on my laptop and with it try to write something that I expect to

be satisfactory, there is always this writer’s thinking bottleneck that has been dragging me behind from writing anything I consider to be up to standard (though I do not even know how a standard should be like). Is this worth a read? This question I have asked myself thousands of times, but got no answer yet. What if one writes something that’s not even worth reading? Is not that terrible? Do

I write stuff that is simply a laughing stock? However, these humble questions are just the thing that stops us, probably potential good writers in future, from

writing anything worth reading.

What is worth reading? There are so many, actually millions of words posted online everyday, written by various people from all walks of life. They are not professional writers but they all work their magic in their own way.

I once read a poem posted on an English writing forum online, written by one of

my English major student in English about how she misses her late father. It was

rendered in the form of a sonnet, with rhyme and all the other necessary elements a sonnet needs to look like a sonnet with. But there were actually few people

went there to read it and offered her replies. I did and I could tell how happy

she must have felt the moment she turned on the computer and saw those little sweet words I wrote her about her sonnet. She was a Chinese all right and her English had not been so perfect yet but the natural flow of her thought in writing

moved me a great deal. Her missing of her long-lost father, from the poem, has been haunting her for years and never managed to escape from it. Though there were several lines that still confuse me a lot and it was her first ever English poem (as far as I can tell), the writing of hers is such a wonderful try and true

feelings of hers. I am happy for her for such a worth-reading sonnet.

There was another writing done by another one of my students, who was so inexperienced in English writing that his love story just ran less than ten lines. He wrote, very directly that he was dumped by his girlfriend and he still loved her

so much and the torment of not being able to be with her was so unbearable. He was indeed a bold guy in writing such things in public for baring all his heart to online strangers and unseen fun-pokers. There I saw not only his broken English (to be honest and with all my respect for his labor), but his courage to write

something that most of us more or less have in common but too timid to share through words left me such an lovely impression of him.

I remember a friend of mine who was an English major back at college days used to spend nights and days writing volumes and volumes of stories in English that she later weaved them all together into a novel. The pity is I did not get to read through it even once except the first few paragraphs. As it turned out at last

, she made great strides in English writing, and almost matched up to a professional one while I ended up still groping in darkness for the right answers to my

questions on writing.

Many writings are worth our reading. But many more writings-to-be may have died

in the writer’s mind that might be a good read and beautifully presented to us.

The true emotions of writing, the courage to write and the devotion for writing

often work wonders and lack of them only produce mediocre or halfway writers. I

, for one, am such a miserable one.

Is this worth a read? This is such a knotty question that most of us find so hard to answer. But, to me, anything that is from the bottom of one’s heart and full of confidence and passion to write out one’s feelings and thoughts is worth

a read and worth every word a growing up writer has written.

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