First Article

Feedback on my first article arrived today, reasonably happy with it. It was accepted with no revision required, content good, grammar, spelling and syntax perfect.

I enjoyed writing it – it was a little outside my normal area but I think this was a plus. I’ve always tried in everything I do to stretch myself. My opinion is, it is better to stretch yourself and work outside your comfort zone from time to time, thus expanding your skillset; rather than churning out the same stuff time and time again.

Rather than fall into a rut, which I think happens a lot, stretching yourself allows you to take a fresh perspective on a well-known topic. For example, rather than write about a character in the third person all the time, try writing in the first person. It forces you to externalise a lot of that character’s feelings and thought processes, which wouldn’t necessarily be a consideration in the third person. I’ll try and post a couple of examples to illustrate this in the next post.