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124 able to sell to yourself, that is, be the first to appreciate the subject matter at hand, before you will be able (and be happy enough) to translate it in the language of others and be able to communicate with the many more. Oh yes, when I’m writing, I’m at the same time surfing the Internet searching, reading. It helps me think some more, and in a more relaxed manner – because what I don’t know, I can find out in a few seconds. Thank God for the Internet! And yes, thank God for the personal computer. Thank God for everything. In case you haven’t noticed, in teaching you how to understand the technical language first before you translate it into the popular, I actually was teaching you one way of how to study a difficult subject. At this point, you’re only beginning! So, I hope you are enjoying the whole thing. The first secret of science writing is not to love what you do, writing, but to enjoy it. (I guess it’s all right if it’s love at first sight, when suddenly you’re a-tingle.) ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ says Steve Jobs, one of my idols (newsservice.stanford.edu). Steve, that works with you as an innovator. What works with me as a science writer is to find love with what I’ve got, with what I’ve found. And to find love, I have found that I should not begin to look for love; I should begin to look for joy instead. So, choose joy. It’s what the doctor ordered. Take joy before and after every meal, before and after sleeping. Those of you who are wont to measure love as you are wont to measure quality time, I assure you that love (as well as quality time) is immeasurable. Didn’t you hear the prophet say? ‘Love covers a multitude.’ So let’s leave it at that. Joy you can gauge, joy you can easily tell, joy you can easily infect someone with. You can easily tell I’m enjoying all this. And exactly how does one choose joy? Ah, I can write another book on that! Choosing Joy
125 About The Author His first love was writing, not a girl. Frank A Hilario began writing – and reading and memorizing the Reader’s Digest, Time, and English and American authors, including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, Earl Stanley Gardner, and verses of the Bible – when he was still in high school. He has never stopped since. Now that he is out of school, while he has finished reading word-for-word all the 7 books on Harry Potter by JK Rowling, he isn’t finished reading the Internet English pages checking facts, searching for information, waiting for insights to enter his open mind. Four books that changed his writing life were those of Rudolf Flesch (on how to write and think more effectively), Edward de Bono (on how to think creatively), Marshall McLuhan (on how to think about technology and media), the Epistles of St Paul (on how to think of oneself and others, his favorite quote being Romans 12). He is the first writer in the Hilario Family, unless you consider Marcelo Hilario y Del Pilar (the correct name), considered by many as the foremost Filipino journalist. Marcelo was writing against the Spanish friars; He is writing for the Filipinos. You don’t have to be against to be for. He has read and edited so many theses that he can read your dissertation manuscript in 5 minutes and tell you what’s basically wrong with it. He jots down thoughts wherever he is, and then sometimes he cannot read his own writing. He writes in drafts, very rough drafts, random sentences, or non-sentences – because he thinks fast while he’s at it. Like a baby, he plays with his food – always, his is food for thought. He writes – edits, desktop-publishes – in Word 2003; even his blogs begin in this program. His essays are written in what today he calls My Franciscan Order, that is, no order at all, random, helter-skelter – in the beginning. (Franciscan? His first name is Francisco.) That follows the biblical story, right? In the beginning there was chaos. After the creation, God saw that it was good. My Franciscan Order is a delirious cocktail of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, Ray Bradbury, Rudolf Flesch, Ogden Nash, New York Times, National Geographic, Nick Joaquin. The describing in verbs is Flesch; the zest for language is Bradbury; the storytelling is Geographic and Times; the inventing of words is Nash; the way of the ending returning to the beginning as well as local color is Joaquin; the humor is often Reader’s Digest, occasionally The New Yorker. He keeps learning. Recently, he discovered that Google Docs creates automatic HTML codes for Word 2003 files that, with a little more Wording, is perfect for submitting to American Chronicle manuscripts as if they were formatted in Word.
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