E. Write as men have written throughout history
Men write to leave behind their life experiences, the hardships of life, the realities behind the facades, the true mask and face of the societies, so that the children and generations to come can see through the hypocrisies of the society.
Men never wrote to earn money, or get a name, or an opportunity to write “Author”. If men did so, then Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Odyssey, Divine Comedy, Upanishads, Shushrut Samhita, Old Testament, and such pieces would have never got created.
If one has to write, one has to write about life, and for that one has to have a life in the first place. Because life is a battle for survival, one has to have enough battles to have enough life to have enough wisdom to have enough words to write anything.
Bengali Poet Madhusudhan Dutt got educated in English and thought that India was not the ideal place for his talent. He adopted Christianity, changed his name to Micheal Madhusudhan Dutt, and went to London for pursuing his writing career and to get famous. However not long after he reached England, he discovered that there were no takers of literature in English in an English-speaking country that was written by an author of a Non-English Speaking “Slave uncivilized” country that Britishers ruled.
Micheal Madhusudhan Dutt was starving to death, when Bengali social worker Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, raised money from the public and brought Madhusudhan Dutt back to Kolkata, almost in an ill-diseased, dying state.
Madhusudhan realized the value of connection to the ground. However, as he had already struggled in his life, it was his survival battle. He went on to create Meghnad Badh, one of the most extraordinary pieces of literature created in Bengali to date.
Madhusudhan had a purpose. He wanted to prove his literary brilliance. He wanted to show how Bengali literature can also become an eternal masterpiece. he wanted to pay back the debt of being rescued from anonymity and death and for being given an opportunity to prove himself.
Many authors today want to become an author because they see other ‘successful authors” in social media the exact way Micheal Madhusudhan Dutt thought that being good in English is a good enough reason to write in English and get worldwide popularity.
Many young authors of today aspire to write for money, name, fame, and for recurrent revenue. However, they do not realize that even if they get some initial success by luck, eventually their devaluation and devolution into a machine-like human would lead them to lead a miserable life in the future, as well as put them at massive risk of being eliminated from the livelihood pool.