How to start writing?

"Write what you see, you hear and you feel alone. Do not write the occult-supernatural. "Pramudya Ananta Toer.

I've been feeling depressed and anxious. This is when it comes to actualizing his ideas and thoughts into written form. Often brilliant ideas floated and could not catch it again. Usually, these ideas appear in an unexpected time, whenever and wherever. We would like to write these ideas, I found I could not string up word by word sentence that forms a string of slick. I thought "it was very difficult to write, not everyone can write." This goes on for very long, even now sometimes I can not put ideas and thoughts into writing.

Once there was a couple of friends say if you want to be able to write, then you can start learning how to write a diary book. This has been done since long and many years, but this does not also make me able to write. Finally I was frustrated and stop the habit of writing diaries. But there's one thing I am thankful that during my habit to write diary was still active, the couple plans to live and my little thoughts can be written and recorded so as not to lose scattered.
But writing is not just fill the diary notes, writing requires more complex skills. Writing requires a broad perspective, a lot of references and frequent practice. That so my problem is how to get started writing? Due to a lot of practice means been able to write, although only simple text. Until finally I found the words Pramudya Ananta Toer "write what you see-see, you hear and you feel alone, do not write the occult-supernatural."

Write down what you see, you hear and you feel alone.
The words spoken by the great writers, historians, and cultural this coutry. I had agree what at suggested by him, that if we want to learn to write then we should write according to what we see, hear and feel. This is useful in helping reasoning imagination, narrative, and stringing groove deskribsi we will pour in writing. Whatever the form of an existing theme idea in our heads, let us try to set forth in writing.

Like reporters, every day they are required to always write stories in a certain amount. In fact they were able to meet these obligations, because the journalists had been formed in his mind to write all the events that already exist. The reporters do not have concocted a series of events in accordance with grooves hayalnya. But they are just stringing fragments of stories that have occurred and are summarized into a written order.

Sometimes we see an article in a written media, which contained a very simple idea. But because the methods of good writing, then it becomes very interesting article. Like if we listen to the song. There is a song whose title single, jealous, TTM, male instinct, love, wake up, pedicab, water, nights a week, and many songs with simple ideas and lyrics that are not complicated. All these songs are the result of an imagination of seeing, hearing and feeling. When what has been on the see, hear and feel it is able to set forth in written form then stayed further processing into a work of good.
As an example of an idea, we can start writing about what is all around us. Suppose we want to write about furniture, we can be more focused on "seat."

The chair is one of the furniture which is very important in the home. In a set of tables will always be equipped with seats. Because without the seat means less furniture is complete. With the seats we can sit back while doing the activity. If we want to choose a chair, staying suit the needs, tastes, budget and quality.

Almost every day we come across a chair, at home, dining room, front porch, back yard, shops, workplaces, in buses, recreational places, offices, hospitals, waiting rooms, etc.. We often do not realize that this life can not be separated from the chair. Have we ever realized how important the seat of our life's journey? Since childhood we are accustomed to living with a chair. Start sitting hall, school, eat, learn, kogkow-kongkow, nongkrongin TV, and many other activities.

Chairs generally have four legs, with a flat plate on top to put the butt and there is a vertical plate as backrest backs. Chair-making raw materials can vary from wood, rattan, iron, bamboo and even made out of cement. In the selection of these materials are usually adjusted by many factors. Beginning initially created to serve as the chair put the tool to comfortably seat bottoms. For that it creates a wide variety of cushions all aimed at making people comfortable, who sits on the seat.

Craftsman furniture with a swift and agile processing raw timber into a form such that the saw seat. Sawed off, pivoted, sanded, painted, and treat others. When finished, the chairs are transported into the show room until later sold, and came in our houses. In the manufacture of chairs, involving many people and factors. Starting from cutting wood, fetching wood, timber transport services, timber craftsmen, courier of furniture, chairs buyer seller hinggal own chair. Everyone has their own roles that are not aware they have linked a common thread.

Along with increased appetite and development of human ideas, current chair is not only used as a means of seating only. Today we can find many accessories that nuanced chair. Accessories makers saw that the chair made a mini can decorate the corners of a particular space. Even now it is not rare to find luxury hotels to put in place a chair decoration business. Accessories with the nuances of the chair can also be in the form of painting a chair, key chains, toys, and many other ideas.

Today, we are preoccupied by the dilapidated state of the other seats. With more and disrupted structure of the administration, the politicians fight each other seats. The chair in question is the status and position. Starting from the seat parliament, the Assembly, the President, ministers, regional head until the head of the village. All elements of society abuzz graced the chair seizure, although people only spectator chair. In the sense of office chairs are also available in the corporate structure. The employees work hard to get the position better. This position is so important because it can provide enjoyment for those who possess it.

The above writing is a form of small theme from a small idea as well. If we can focus on one idea and has a good reference, it is very likely produced a very insightful article. If we look at the example above, the actual writing is still very possible for us to develop further. Starting from the definition, ingredients, benefits, and others.

I am always interested in articles in the daily work of Samuel Aulia compass every week. If I read, almost all of his writings is explained about what he saw, he heard and he's feeling. Or can we call all these factors are the fruit of his experience. There he is like someone who was talking endlessly about one blurted out the theme on a regular basis to form a slick script. With extensive knowledge and maturity to analyze the writings of samuel make Aulia is always fresh and relevant to read until whenever.
Once upon a time I send via e-mail an article results in aceh enjoy a trip to my friend, kojenk. a reply comment on your writing is good writing, gado-gado, deskribtif, but unfortunately there is no coherent path (serial and regular). "Shit, you're talented mpret" he said. He also stressed that more often I read a lot.

An analysis of a genius, he can immediately give a comment what he saw (read) by pouring it in written form. Kojenk also give suggestions so that I often read to give "a sense" that a writing is not "crisp." In addition kojenk also give praise as arising from his feelings with the words "wacky, you're talented mpret". Glad I also got praise.

Actually I feel is still very poor comment given kojenk, he did not give a few examples of writing, writing tips, methods to explor the imagination, and a few other tricks of writing. Hopefully someday he's willing to give science and journalism in all of us, so we are able to put ideas and thoughts in written form.
It's no secret that many young people are incompetent writing. They were only able to koar-koar without being able to translate in the form of a structured article. I was no exception .. We never tried to compile a small idea into something big. Actually if I look, my friends have good ideas and thoughts. Sometimes even a very smart idea, but unfortunately those ideas are not recorded in written form so that it knows where the idea was evaporated.

As experienced by my friend, Andri widiyatmanto (30th), Salatiga men drop out of chemical engineering UGM is an intelligent person. He was able to absorb knowledge quickly, often cast brilliant ideas. Often, too, he wrote poetry, poems, short articles, words of pearls in the sheets. Because the sheets of paper are not well documented, then eventually fly somewhere where the work is ...? very fond of truth, whereas if the sheets are summarized well, do not close the possibility to become a book.
I also experienced this phenomenon. Since college, already there are countless songs that are created from personal ideas with each guitar in my hands. But because his lyrics are not the rhythm of the music I write and I did not record, so now I do not have anything works. Yet if all these songs I write and record, perhaps I already have the album (although the record with the recorder usually). With these experiences then I recommend my friends to try out ideas and thoughts in written form.

Anything as bad as our writing, it is a personal work. No copying, such as plagiarism, do not cheat from other people's work. Maybe sometimes we got the idea after reading or seeing other people's work. It was not a crime, because the ideas and inspiration can come from anywhere. Able from a crowded place to a quiet place, could the terminal until the funeral, could from the mountains to the ocean floor. What is important is the authenticity of these works can we be held accountable.
Everything, if genuine, is worth a fortune in this country, because a false high value aja. He he .. we realize that today we live in a country full of falsehoods? All aspects of joint life and this country has more false aja. Very difficult to find something original. From the start fake handbags, fake books, fake songs, coffee fake, fake stamps, fake diploma, fake ID cards to any minister-signatures forged. While other states vying with each other to make something original, this country was busy with the race even falsehoods.

The government of this country are not happy with the man who had ugemi authenticity. Even the government with different policies instead often "forcing" people to lie. For example, ID cards should be listed in the writing of religion, even though I do not have a religion (cult penghayat). In this case I felt compelled by the government to lie, forced to confess to something I do not true. In this country, there are millions of people who have a case like mine. How the government continues to bear to tell its citizens why lie?

Every individual has a responsibility to always keep the authenticity. Dayak language if some yourself, yes ... being yourself is the key to it all. Why are we always stuck with the flow? Why we do not ever try to make the flow and vortex itself? We should indeed have a truly genuine self to his own personal citrakan. If Samuel Aulia describe people trapped in the flow is a human chameleon, they do not know who she was, always changing, they have no identity, no badge, yes .. they do not have ID cards.
Once again my friends, let us about the currents that sweep over these small works. We turn the flow of these falsehoods with a flow of authenticity ...
Please do not write the supernatural-occult.

A phrase that is very intriguing to understand, "do not write the occult-supernatural." Why Pramudya advised not to write the occult-supernatural? Basically, the idea is something that is supernatural. We can not escape from everything supernatural, even we still breathe-even is something supernatural. Ah, the more confused I made by Prammudya. All of this life cycle, from wake to sleep, bathe, walk, eat, mingle, to go back to sleep is part of the occult. So why are we advised not to write the unseen-unseen?

If the definition is meant by Pramudya supernatural is anything that is illogical and strange as ghosts, witches, demons, mystical, Kyai against ghosts like in soap operas, heaven, hell, and the like. I fully support that statement. Through the reflection in the "maybe" Pramudya want to say that something supernatural is not necessarily true. Do not relate everything that is not clear and not real, then we menjustisfikasi about heaven and hell, right and wrong, black and white.

This country now has become unorganized, unclear, no vision, where focus somehow blurred. Currently a lot of books smelled mystical, from the theme of the body to heaven-hell (they ever witnessed heaven / hell?). Starting from the occult to occult political salvation. Began his magical remote Dayak until his magical middle eastern community. Began his magical group of fine lines up to his magical hawks. Oalah .. increasingly clear that lack of clarity.

Every day we are treated to soap opera with the theme of the body. There are charred bodies, the bodies are not received by the ground, dihanyutkan corpse in the river, the bodies could not be buried, and other bodies. Sometimes there is also a story with the idea of witches, supernatural creatures watchman wingit caves, until the story tuyul friendly with humans.
Indonesia Raya why can not produce great works?
Indonesia Raya Why can not become a great country?
We can not become a great country because we never pay attention to small and always magical thinking, we can never appreciate something small and always connect with the supernatural. We never use the ratio with all my soul.

We often see a little trivial, little had to be marginalized, who have trampled let that little broken, which is much smaller they should be discarded. Yes ... we always marginalize small things. We never pay attention to small, we are always reluctant to treat small, our nation is not painstaking. We can not cultivate a little in order to grow up through a long process. We just want to big with instant street.
We often see the unseen things that seemed real and the real is not real. We often treat the lack of reality as something that must be ugemi and trusted, while all the real fact we marginalized. We often justify things supernatural and instead blame that can be seen and heard. It's no secret if there is news of an official request this kyai blessing or a shaman to ask this and ask for it, let me be like this, let me be so. A minister looking for treasure with damaging archaeological sites. Wow, crazy pancen this country ..
This country was never great because we are always selfish and interest groups. Indonesian people always want to win themselves, always want to control between one another. Indonesian people always insist on with his own affairs without regard to the feelings of others. BILL desperately mengegolkan certain edges to dominate and oppress minorities. Community of this country never see the history and culture and understanding of the existence and diversity the country but wanted to make everything uniform, without any exception.

We may now forget about the goals of reform championed since the beginning. We may now have forgotten how to make this country a cleaner and not a corrupt country. Yes ... we have forgotten about the main purpose of reform is because we have been complacent with things occult-supernatural.
We often hear news about the green party demanding the closure and raided gambling, when in reality they're actually backing of such gambling. Each day the green party get inputs tribute from the gambling sites and thus the amanlah gambling. In the governance environment is also no less ridiculous. We should also observe that the department of religion is the most corrupt department in this country, but they have always argued that the moral of the cleanest and most noble character. Wah wah .. Christianity bad-mbalik mbolak reality ...
Another institution which always is never silent, Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) is often criticized certain companies with product labels forbidden (read the java sank, like a sinking ship) but the edges are due to the MUI does not get paid tributes from the company . MUI is also frequently condemned, condemned it. Yes .. MUI stands for Business Condemn Indonesia. MUI always condemned any attempts intelligent children of the country. Not a day without blasphemy, insults, protests, legal opinions, and the like.
Do not we could do the wise?
Do not we respect each other?
Should not we can respect each other?
Ah .. damn, why I can not do anything about it ....
Population of Indonesia Raya is a big number, but a very small step thinking. Almost every day we will always hear and see the behavior of people who always talk about other people. We are pleased with the show gossip, infotainment programs that do not educate. We love to talk about other people's behavior, sometimes with feelings and cynical outlook. Our society does not realize that what they are doing is something that is not good. Do they ever think if that happens is their own? How we feel if the talk of the whole Indonesian people? What they do can interfere with a person's privacy that would cause new problems.

We often forget their own behavior, but rather cool by giving the stamp and stamp on other people. Can not we all start from ourselves each to do some little things better and not magical? Little things that let us always diligent in cleaning the rooms, cleaning house, cleaning up the environment. This is a small thing and not supernatural. Tahukan effects resulting from this activity if done regularly? In accordance with the theory of "buterfly effect" which says that "disebuah island in the pacific ocean, the little flutter of a butterfly can produce storms in the pacific ocean." Flutter of a butterfly is very small indeed, but if there are millions of butterflies the pacific ocean storm could sink the titanic ship.

Taking this theory, if the culture of clean living can we apply to everyday life, and this is transmitted to us in every environment, clean country is not just a dream. If we truly live up to these principles, then we will not trash a bad stomach. Even the ash and cigarette butts, trash, we are considering. One thing is for sure we can if we consistently do this well is to shape the character and mentality better.
In the workplace, in society, and in friendships. We can also start a clean life with no corruption and mark-ups. Doing this is not an easy thing. Often times we hear the voice that speaks eradicated corrupt, corrupt brush, eradicate corruption and similar jargon. Have we ever tried to restore these sentences into ourselves? These jargon Have we toss in front of our dresser mirror? Because sesugguhnya not participate corruption is not easy. We can shout no corruption because we do not have the opportunity for corruption.

Once upon a time in the year 2005, when I was still active in the NGO Borneo Coruption Watch (BCW). An NGO job ngurusin corruption in East Kalimantan. We handle a corruption case a regional leader. After all the data needed to bring the accused to the green table, we were off to jakarta-to submit all documents to the attorney general file, Police Headquarters, the KPK, the presidential office, ICW, and the Blora Center. In the Blora Center (SBY formation institutions) we do a press release this news so the media exposed. Our hope is that if this case appears the surface the more law enforcement agencies to act quickly.
After all processes are completed, we intend to return to no matter Kaltim. But not long ago, we heard that the head of Blora Center has come to our founding to report that data corruption has been obtained and are ready to print media. Thus the leadership of Blora Center is getting a wad of cash. Damn ... Thus we all detraction from BCW team, we are working fatigue kok Blora Center, which can be even money. And that's not the result of this work ..

Thus the ins and outs of per-korupsian in this country. Even an institution formed by a president who proclaimed himself as an independent institution, free from corruption and able to be a bridge between society and the presidency, has carried on the tide. After that we also do not believe anymore with all kinds of anti-corruption agency said. after that bubarlah Borneo Coruption Watch ....
Corruption in congregation, so the term gado-gadonya now. This is an expression to describe that this country has become a nest of criminals. corruption is a mentality, corruption is a character. It is formed and structured a very long time. Since time immemorial, since the days of empire. Currently almost all Indonesian people had extensive corruption. maybe only 10% (including infants and children, innocent) Just the Indonesian population who are not involved in this insane action. But if one day you are in a position to have the opportunity for corruption, and it turns out you can maintain to remain was not corruption, then you get a reward worth of this country. .Well .. most certainly will not praise you get from me

Honestly, I myself have extensive corruption. Whether on a large scale or small scale. And this to me is a big sin. This is an improper act, an action that can hurt yourself and can also be detrimental to the country (a republic of Indonesia). Fortunately this bad action is not last long, during the process of living, about june 2005 I met a nationalist in Samarinda. His name Sugeng Haryadi, a lecturer and researcher. One time when my discussions with him (more precisely ngangsu kawruh), no words were spoken "iso kowe Sinau Games ora money (corruption) iso awakmu yen began to sing cornerstone little things during limang taon." A phrase that was so flat but really get in the memory.

We can begin to learn to not corrupt the simple things. We do not take bolpoint, erasers, scissors, just the goods of little value anywhere for five years. We do not use office hours to read the newspaper, ngerumpi, playing chess, hanging out in the canteen (like civil servants). We do not use the office phone for personal purposes. Imagine, for forming an anti-corruption mentality and character we have to start living life like that for five years, starting now. If during that time we can not take care of mental hygiene, then someday, if there is a chance, we'd corruption.
With the talents of young-talena revolutionary and has a vision far ahead, maybe we can give color to slightly improve the country who have "reot" this. With each work in their field professionally, let us tune this country with ideas, thoughts and work of the independent ...
Ok, guys. This is a form of graffiti from me. It may be true what they say that my writing has flavor kojenk gado-gado, not coherent, and crisp. But this is the work itself, not njiplak and not supernatural. For the friends who have journalistic skills, please dong given input in the future so that my writing is more flavor and crunchy. Hopefully kojenk not remain silent after reading my writing on this one. Maybe he was inspired to continue to provide ideas and input on all of us in journalism ...


Meulaboh, 28 April'06
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