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Originally Posted by mikola  I agree with you. However, I suppose that at first I have to absorb a great deal of content before I can produce something. I think of it like being a child. One has to listen a lot of the language before s/he can say something. |
Yes, that's true. But
what does a child have to listen to? What does the subject have to be about?
I'll answer that: anything. It doesn't matter. A child both listens to all the language around him... and also starts to babble to play with the way her throat, teeth, and tongue work together to make sounds.
Ask people for reactions to your writing and your speaking. It could be direct: I didn't like this or I liked that: or it could be indirect: I felt this way at this point, and you could infer from that what worked or didn't work.
Be like a child: start trying while you're learning. If you want to know how to write, then read. Not books on writing: books on everything. Read books on the same stuff you want to write about. Same goes for speaking.