Some people said that writing is easy, some of them find it like grasping at straws. You don’t know what to do when your pen touches the paper, nor any words to type to change the blinking horizontal straight line on your screen.
You mind is as white as the screen background. Blank.
Although it’s one of the life skills that we have to obtain, it’s not as simple as it seems. One of the Sundanese (one of the Indonesian tribe located in West Java) proverb I’ve ever heard is,
Cikaracak ninggang batu, laun laun jadi dekok
It means if one action done repeatedly, no matter how weak or small the action is, it will have effect. The power of practice makes perfect, I guess?
I’ve been writing myself since I was in elementary school. Wherever I go, I’d have a small notebook, maybe as size as an A5 book, and a pen with me. Whenever I have the idea or any English word I saw on the billboards, or pamphlets, I’ll jot them down on my book.
The question is, did the habit made me as a writer?
Yes, and no. YES because I’ve been used to write everything that I found, thought or even planned. No, because I was not that into writing and I did’t confident enough tho say that I am a writer myself. Thats’ why I put “writes” behind my nickname, not “writer”. The writes itself stands as a verb, not a noun.
It reminds me about what I do, not what I am.
So maybe, this is what I do. Write.
