Writing is not easy (My First Writing)

Writing is not easy (My First Writing)

After going through my letters to the editor in different newspapers, people give me all kind of feedback. Some believe I will someday be a journalist. Others believe that getting published in the letter column is easy as breaking an egg. I have been hearing them for last three years. An admission : I took to writing letters because I hated my studies. One day, when I was in class ten, I wrote to the 'Letter to the editor' section of the Post just to pass my time. To my surprise, it was published the next day! I was so happy and excited, and thus began my letter-writing spree.
When I got into the college, I expected my teachers to go through my letters and talk about them in the classroom. But during my two years in plus two, not one of them had any idea I wrote to newspaper on regular basis. Luckily, the station manager of a local FM station in Biratnagar used to read my letters and comment them favorably to my father. It was thanks to all those letters that I got the job of Radio Jockey for a year.
At last getting the kind of attention I was looking for, I thought about upgrading to the Post Platform column and then finally, to the feature articles. I promptly wrote a dozen Platforms. Sadly, not one of them was good enough to published. After cleaering my plus two, I faced another hurdle.In those days, I didn't have a computer to be able to write long stuff, like the Platform. However, writing small letters was still possible through the GPRS connection of cell phone, which I took full advantage of.
Since I have been collecting all the Post Platforms and started analyzing them to get an idea about what I should be writing about - so keen I was to get published in the column. Then came time to pick a topic to write about. It was a tough job as none of my earlier ideas had been accepted. I thought about it night and day: in the microbus, while walking on the road, when I was reading or...even when I was in the bathroom. But nah! I couldn't get a unique topic to write on. After something like a fortnight, I thought: why not to write about my unsuccessful tries?
I don't know if these thoughts will find a place on the editorial page. If not, I have since come up with two more ideas and I will write something on them for sure. If I do get published, I'll jump with joy, as I will be well on my road to becoming a successful, ahem, writer.

(This is my very first writing that got published on The Kathmandu Post(Oct 25 2009))