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Writing Is A Way Of Propensity To Self Subversion

In the present media-driven world where writers have the potentials to become billionaires, more and more people are becoming interested in the art of writing. Writing entails more than just throwing an amalgamation of arbitrary words in one big pot to form a roughly made hodge-podge piece. It is an art and should be treated as one. Each person has his/her own writing style and technique different and distinct from others, like thumb marks which not the same are for any two people in this earth.

One's style and technique however is not static. It is dynamic - it evolves as a person grows in experience. It is tantamount to a person's development. Writers should always contest themselves, challenge themselves to do better, be better all the time or else risk an undesired growth stunt. Challenging oneself, giving way to self-subversion and questioning one's own ideas and mentality - these are all necessary to grow, not only as a writer, but as a person. Doing this ensures maturity, which is much needed to become an effective storyteller.

There are times when changes in ones writing style come to a person without his/her conscious knowledge and if that is so, it might be hard for the change to become immediately accepted. If ever that happens to you, orientate yourself to accept these changes because they happened due to your unnoticed development. Though it might take some time to do so, when it happens, you will be able to reach to terms with yourself more and you will come to realize how much more you understand your own psyche.

When writers incorporate ideas of self-subversion into their writing, the pieces come out to be either parodies or pastiches. Sometimes it is necessary for writers to write parodies of themselves and their persona in order to see in third person perspective what they really are. People all see each other differently and in order for someone to see himself/herself in full view, one must look at a mirror, which might be exactly what a parody is. Pastiches, however, are necessary to a writer's ego. They build a writer's confidence, hence fueling him/her to write more.

When you have started, to writer either parodies or pastiches of your earlier self, then you would know you have already outgrown yourself. Do not be scared if you realize that it already happened to you because it is a fundamental component of the process of evolution. Every good writer should undergo this fruition sometime or another. It is essential to constantly refresh and renew one's ideas because they become stale at some point in a writer's career. Differing one's point of view might be the only way for a writer to thrive thru the ages.

However, if you think you have not undergone self-subversion, do not fret. It is not advisable to rush things because self-subversion should be taken at one's own pace. Do not give up just because you have been trying for a long time to further your writing style and technique, it will come to you in due time. Forced evolution might not feel natural and hence might be detrimental to you instead of constructive. Just take your time to examine yourself and write what you want to. Re-read your earlier works and if you have time, rewrite them again and see the difference between the you from before and the you from now. You do not have to read a lot if you do not want to or do not have the time. Sometimes, to be able to write good pieces, you just have to attack it and not be hesitant. The rawness gives a good feel to your writings at times. You will know that you have already undergone the desired change when you can finally laugh at your former self and say that you are much better now.