It is very interesting to me that if you go to Writer's Digest, or even look around in your local area for a writer's club you will see all sorts of classes where published novelists and creative writing experts are teaching new writers how to write creative works. There are classes on how to write detective novels, science-fiction, or classic style novels. In fact, there are so many of these types of classes, it's hard to choose which one to take, or determine who knows what they're talking about, and which ones are going to give you the information you need to become a successful writer in that venue.
There are also classes on how to do technical writing, and write nonfiction. And there are classes on how to put together an e-book, find a publisher, or write a magazine article. Why all this fascinates me is because there are very many writing classes which talk about how to write provocative essays filled with wisdom. It seems to me if we look back in human history we see great philosophers who have written extremely interesting works, and extremely intellectual pieces. But we don't have any classes which teach people in the present periods how do that; have you ever asked yourself why.
Perhaps you haven't, and as an online article writer myself, and having written a number of books, I haven't even asked myself this until just now. Indeed, I did go online and search this topic, and I was rather dismayed that I couldn't find hardly any information on the subject. Therefore, perhaps I can give you some of my own suggestions because I'd been thinking on this question for a few weeks now. You see, if you want to write provocative wisdom pieces you need to catch the reader's attention, and challenge what they think they know.
For instance, each one of us has a set of principles that we live by, and doctrines which we believe in. If you want to write provocative wisdom you have to challenge the status quo, challenge past philosophers, and challenge conventional wisdom, and common sense. The more ironic the situation, or the greater the conundrum, the more provocative your argument or piece might be. You might stumble onto a subject which you thought might be just a small article, which turns into a 10 page essay. And then on later you realize you could make it into a full-length e-book, or perhaps a great philosophical piece.
Who knows, maybe in future periods people will be celebrating your name as one of the great philosophers of our current time. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it, and if you have any questions, comments, or would like to hash out this topic with me, please shoot me an e-mail.
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