Atimes you don't know how to explain what you have written. You look at yourself after reading what you write and ask yourself if truly you were the one who wrote it. Sometimes you proffers solutions to some issues and problems other times, you leave those problems to their problems. The problems become another's nightmare finding ways to solve them. That is the mysteries hidden in the act of writing your thought into a living being, putting something down for others to read.
You can't get it all right as a writer that is why we have editors that see from a different angle from yours. Atimes you are blocked for days from writing by your muse holding you captive, sometimes words don't even come in conclusion to what you stand for. Hence, the efficiency of your words matters, the efficacy of what you're trying to put down out there matters to you as a writer more than anything else.
First, consider the audience you are writing for and yourself, your readers must be put into consideration, balancing them the same way you balance your self. You could leave some of them at loose end to find their way to your innermost thoughts and the other times, you journey with them as they read your mindset, but mind you, you might loose yourself when trying to carry everyone along, when trying to be fair and square with your analysis and citations towards the psychological behavours of your readers. Your ability to communicate to the heart of your readers is key. Mysteriously, you don't really get what you have written many times your writtings will always get interpreted elsewhere by someone. It is solving some problems out there which you don't know. It is filling a vacuum for people out there which is unknown to you. The secret is your name is taken into consideration leaving no dot.
It travels afar off leaving you to that spot where you cooked it up. It is unexplainable how far it could take you through the secret of unmasking the world and the very best of yourself. The sound of your mind becomes more active, the zeal to affect lives become unbeatable till a particular reason and mission is accomplished. Writers are gods among us, they are real prophets who see before it comes to pass. The truth behind every event in the act of writing remains a mystery which you might not really understand how to explain it to another.
Sometimes, some ask why I write and others ask what inspires me to write and others ask, to teach me how to write, but in all, I believe writing is something you build in yourself reading others or training yourself in it. No one is a better writer, no one does it better, no one can get it all right because what tastes good to Mr A might end up tasting bad for Mr B, these is how writing works. You can not solve all the problems coming to you. You can't proffer solutions to them all. You leave them at their own mercy in solving their miseries themselves. Methodologically, entirety of your bravery lies in the brevity of your muse to establish the main reason why you write.
You are indispensable, you measure your words worthily, wonderfully you make your gut thrill people, writing becomes an addiction, a journey, a new wave of intellectualism you can't pocket but to allow everyone see pages you write to interpret it their own way. The illusion thereof is something you can't understand, the imageries are larger than you, your thoughts are larger than life itself, these are the mysteries in life and mysteries exposed by writing.
A good writer writes, from the heart. I've read books that had me in tears and at the same time left me blank. I've started books I could not drop until I lost myself in it. Writing is the metamorphosis of the universe. I've read books that had me talking to myself wondering about the nature of Man and the universe itself. I've read many that made me question life and the principles governing it. Others made me want to change my beliefs while some made me want to try different beliefs and concept about the myopic mysteries of men.
John Vincent Chizoba is a writer and film maker residing in Lagos.
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