Mother and Writer

The main advantage of being a mother is to accompany and watch her kids grow every single day than a father did. Mother has a natural and strong psychological relationship with her children. That is why every child tend to be closer to his/her mother. In this modern era, there are many mothers who want to capture and share their children development on social media.

            On the other hand, there also mothers who surprisingly being writers. This phenomenon was truly happened to these two mothers. The first is Jessica Iskandar. She is an Indonesian actress and a mother. She wrote a book since she was young. Her first book is “Jedar” which is taken from her short name. The second book is “Jedar Power: Love, Life, Lord”. Actually, her books tell about her life. Her first book told about her young and the second book told about her marriage story and her experience of being a single parent.

            The second mother who becomes a writer is Retno Hening. Different to Jessica, her book is telling about the excitement and humorous story of a child and family from Indonesia who live in Muscat, Oman. The interesting point of her book is about her tips and tricks of giving education to children that she applied to her child, Kirana.

Now, how could a mother be a writer? Here some tips of being a writer:

1.  The topic of writing is the first important thing to decide. Find a phenomenon around you or you just writing your own life story. Have a research andbe natural.
2. Long writing process requires energy and commitment. If you want to be a writer, you have to consistently produce works, you must be willing to work hard to continue writing no matter what obstacles are facing up.
3. If you really want to be a professional writer, it's important that you have the ability to motivate yourself. Writing is a process that depends on the self motivation. The spirit of others will not help much if you do not find the drive to work from within.