How to Write a Column
What do you thing about, writing, ideas and career. I had to confess that I followed none of the traditional patterns. I love writing, but I am not a journalist.
If I ask a question to you, ”How long does it take to write a column?” The philosophical answer is a lifetime and the actual answer is as long as it takes. Somewhere between those two is reality.
A journalist has rigid rules, but as a columnist I have lots of freedom to let my thoughts roam. I write what I am, what I think, what I remember, what I believe à”A column is a wild animal with which you wrestle every day. Sometimes, you eat the bear, sometimes he eats you.”.
The other question is, ”Where do you get your ideas?” Ideas are a little like butterflies, beautiful and very hard to catch.
Ideas come at odd times and in all sorts of places. You have to catch them when they flit by, or you may lose them. Some of my best ideas have come in the shower. Water must fertilize the brain. But until somebody invents a waterproof chalkboard, a lot of them get washed away.
Actually, of course, most ideas come from reading about and listening to and thinking about what is going on in the world aroud us.
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