Writing as Expression

Writing is a skill that is needed every day. Small traders are spending to market requires a note to reminds their needs, farmers needs the date record of planting, fertilizer, and cleaning grass. Teachers, lecturers, students, employees of agencies, all require records to report or to store data.

writing is a documentation of knowledge. A researcher will continue the research results in the same field that their predecessor had done. A writer novel writing themes and ideas that their idea was inspired by the novels that have been written earlier by another author. A traveler would be careful in certain areas that have been written by someone as a dangerous areas.

It all can be done because of  writing skills. Millions of people have written books. World civilization is marked with printed books. Enlightenment world marked by the discovery of the printing press. The most pathetic battle was marked by the destruction of library buildings.

The book is one of the resurrection sign of a nation. The history of the rise of the Japanese nation is marked by their thirst for knowledge. When the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, the Japanese destroyed. The entire Japanese population to feel desperate. Emperor of the leader got up immediately calculate the number of teachers who remain. After that, thousands of Japanese students were sent to all corners of the world with the task when it came home to translate the books from the country where they study. Japanese nation become a nation hungry for reading.

At the airport, at stations, in places of waiting, all the people is reading books. Books fiction spiritual journey of a ronin (warriors), that is MUSHASHI created by Eiji Yoshikawa, who became the spirit of the Japanese people is printed exceeds the population of Japan. Now we know, Japan became the leading country in economy, technology, and other sciences.

Writing progress is very shot. Not only those people who early on was known as the author who then collects his writings into a book. The people who initially do not have a relationship with the world of writing can suddenly make a book. Many artists who are usually entertaining, singing, playing the movie, suddenly posted writings. There are directors, managers, ordinary employees, who then booked his writings. If they can not write a book, they can hire a ghostwriter to make a book based on their knowledge and experiences.

It was done because of the habit of reading that has been embedded with them. A good reader, must be at least have an opinion, imagination, steam, or whatever it is, about what they read. While to express our writing there are many media today is very wide open. Not only did the print media that small chance that the expression used to be a place to write. But there is internet if we want to write something. When in the print media, a writer who wants to get his article to be printed must pass through the filter editor, on the internet does not exist any filter. We can send each other emails with a friend, enter myspace, create a blog that contains our writings, etc.

The possibilities of that makes people more excited to write. At least we write down the experience by each of us. Because of that, we also learned about the picture, thoughts, feelings of the people in another place. For example, the popular novel that is Ayat-Ayat Cinta not only provide a means of entertainment, but also situations and circumstances of Egypt into the knowledge of readers. Novel titled Laskar Pelangi not just give spirit to work and learn, but also gives the state of knowledge in the interior of Bangka.

That way, writing became a very familiar expression at this time. Thousands of people write blogs. Started from teachers, lecturers, students, civil servants, ministers, members of Parliament, until workers are working abroad as domestic servants, laborers, all of them are making blog. They are every day, every week, always fill out their blog by some posting article. They described their work, like grief, feelings, thoughts, writing poetry, writing stories, etc.

This blog is a kind of diary of someone who can be accessed (read) freely by everyone. Many blogs then attract the sympathy of visitors (readers). When more and more readers are sympathetic, it could be the content of the blog will become a book. Many history books that began with an event like that.

In other words, for certain people, writing is an expression of everyday life. When the writer is not writing something, it feels something missing in their life. It's certainly something that is healthy. Writing is an expression that is conducive to creating a modern society, learners and the thirst for knowledge. Materials to be written, of course, not only discovered by his own experience, the conversation in a coffee shop, or just contemplate, but also should read the books, studying the environment, may also watch movies, or deliberate discussion.

Every to do anything, a writer will be ready to capture the trajectories which he considers the idea interesting. For example, during a holiday weekend to a tea garden, the sights, or to another place, a writer will try to capture something interesting. Something interesting could be a new experience, or common experience, a common occurrence that many people never experience it, but with a new reflection, ordinary events can become something extraordinary.