The Young League Forum

style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> YOUNG AFRICAN WRITERS LEAGUE                         9/05/2015 [THE YOUNG LEAGUE] A WRITER AND VISION A visionary writer is a successful writer, says Stephen King. A writer must have vision, says Bill Newman . The two words are inseparable and intertwined. A writer without vision is like a pilot without a compass. Your imagination is one of the most powerful things you possess.   We should remember our today’s quote from Helen Keller that “the greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.”   There is nothing that excites and motivates people like a vision to accomplish something special. Vision is a comprehensive sense of where you are, where you are going, how you are going to get there and what you will do after you get there. It is dreaming dreams about the future. It is seeing the big picture and personally painting a part of it [Bill Newman, 1997].   A visionary writer feel

YOUNG AFRICAN WRITERS LEAGUE                        1/05/2015 [THE YOUNG LEAGUE] THEME: WHO IS A SUCCESSFUL WRITER? This question has been a controversial issue. There are two schools of thought in this debate. The first group belief that there is nothing like a successful writer, rather what we have is a lucky writer. The disciples of this school contend that writing is a creative cum imaginative mental ideas which many people have but few are lucky to discover them and also utilize them. They further argue that the so called successful writers are those the machinery of the state [government] favored, if not their work might not have seen the light of the day.   On the contrary, the second school opined that there is a successful writer. That successful writer is different from lucky or favored writer. The apostles of this school contend that a successful writer is one who has passion and purpose for writing which will enable the person to fully develop and appropriate