Our most precious ability, the knack of creation, is also our most fleeting resource.

 (Walter Mosley)

 Writing is categorically an art by itself. From copy writing to technical writing, business writing to report writing, every form, I suppose, needs some amount of compromise on your discrete mode of writing. Although there are no golden rules that one has to adhere to while exercising these kinds of writing, one is forced to relinquish the idiosyncratic treatment of language so as to serve the purpose of the form.  And more often than not it entails a deliberate conscious effort to resist your distinctive vogue of approach to the language. Yet I do understand that these are tendencies and not absolute laws.

   Rummaging through scores of books that tutor on how to write creatively, persuasively, technically, sensibly (!) etc., I construe, would make a conformist of one, endangering the creative inhibitions in him/her. On a parallel note, the act is something akin to reading books that prescribe ‘How to cure depression in seven days, how to be optimistic and cheerful, magic formula to overcome depression, etc.’ For sure, you will not want to refer a book to ascertain how to live your life, would you?

   Involved in an assortment of writing assignments, of late, I have somehow learnt to control my predilections (for a specific form and approach to the content) and reserve them for another, the practice of which seems to substantially trace a logical extension to my ‘write career’.

  And now for a related gossip, am beginning my ‘write career’ as content writer 

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