There was a great documentary titled, “Scared Straight.”

As I recall, teenage gang-bangers were shuttled to grown-up penitentiaries on the East coast to get a dose of what big time prison life is about.

If inoculated with a little bit of the poison, the theory went, they’d get just sick enough of crime to quit.

Well, I have my own equivalent of “Scared Straight,” as a writer, speaker, and independent consultant. Whenever I grow tired of my practice I look at the want ads, the classifieds that are looking for “writers” or whatever I’m bellyaching about at the time.

Just today, suffering from what Zig Ziglar calls, “stinkin’ thinkin’” I spotted an ad for a “writer” posted by a prestigious mutual fund company. (If you want this post, contact the Capital Companies in Brea, California.)

I suppose, for the cub reporter or budding journalist it’s an okay position, offering health benefits from “Day 1,” as they put it.

But to me, it’s death.

I cannot imagine finding myself or losing myself, whichever is my purpose for putting fingers to keypads, by interviewing financial services drones who haven’t had an original idea in their lifetimes.

Keeping busy, crafting in-house newsletters, is more than mind-numbing. It’s sticking your head into an electric oven and leaving with a suntan instead of a ticket to the hereafter.

Anyway, if you’re an independent type that is slacking off, goofing around, loafing, or spinning one alibi after the next, scare yourself straight.

Take a long look at the infinite, at slow death.

Scan those want ads, and then give yourself a big hug.

They don’t have you yet!

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Everyday, from dawn to dusk, we see countless things to learn from or to store in library. It is true that we will never be able to catch all the things happening in each day; however, we suppose to learn as much as possible or most of the things. How can we do that?

As a volunteer author for a number of educational websites, thinking of as many topics as possible, follow by expanding the ideas for uploading on the websites is the most mentally challenging vocation for me. There must be a strategy to help me collecting as many everyday issues as possible, and covert these issues into “worth-learning issues.” And this strategy is absolutely simple: writing.

The title: “writer is just about writing” is to teach all the fresh, professional and prospective writers that to be a true writer, writing down every issue come across the eye or mind is the must.

Each day, we see countless sight and mental crossing issues, such as national, international and breaking news, writer’s mistake, shortcoming in anyone’s daily conduct (intentionally and unintentionally), achievement and failure at the workplace, quarrel in the human or animal family, and even the change of nature or environment.

To be a writer, as I said about is to think of as many topics as possible, and we must write a few words to make us remember the topic. For writer, because any crossing can become the worth-learning issue or discussion, writing down a few words [may be a title of the topic] to remind us of the topic to discuss or to expand is the must, because would blankly forget after we arrive home and start writing.

Remember! We need to write as many topics as possible everyday, so without writing as the helping strategy, we would not able to accomplish our quantity and quality dream.

Lay Vicheka’s writing quote: “To be a writer is to write even a piece of dust in font of you.” Coined June 3, 2006 at 6:34, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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