nak menulis??? baca ni dulu

terjumpa dengan poem yang cantik ni semasa blogwalking tadi. very nicely put.

memang sangat sesuai untuk semua orang. lebih-lebih lagi yang baru belajar berblog.  me included :)

So You Want To Be A Writer

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything, 

don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your

heart and your mind and your mouth

and your gut,

don't do it.

 if you have to sit for hours

staring at your computer screen

or hunched over your typewriter

searching for words,

don't do it.

 if you're doing it for money or fame,

don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want women in your bed,

don't do it.

if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again,

don't do it.

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,

don't do it.

if you're trying to write like somebody else,

forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of you,

then wait patiently.

if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife

or your girlfriend or your boyfriend

or your parents or to anybody at all,

you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,

don't be like so many thousands of

people who call themselves writers,

don't be dull and boring and pretentious, 

don't be consumed with self-love.

the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep

over your kind. don't add to that.

don't do it.

unless it comes out of

your soul like a rocket,

unless being still would drive you to madness or

suicide or murder,

don't do it.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut,

don't do it.

when it is truly time,

and if you have been chosen,

it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it

until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was. 

Charles Bukowski

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