EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

I feel that writing is an art. One can become as creative as possible when it comes to writing. The act of observing people and situations around one self and then penning it down, all the while molding it and creating an inventive story from it. It truly fascinates me and prompts me to write more. Some people share their stories and pieces which they create while some keep them to themselves. I feel when you write your stories; you should share them with others as well. The feedback the writers receive, from the people, helps them to amend themselves and the appreciation encourages and motivates the writers to pen down and tackle more topics.

I am majoring in creative writing and English. I love being creative and love the fact that I can easily express myself. I really like sharing my feelings and creating stories about things I experience, things I see etc. However there are a few drawbacks of sharing your creations, other people can use them without giving the writer any credit. They use the material and represent it as their own work. Nowadays plagiarism has become a very common act due to easy access through the internet (Kinicki, 2009). One cannot restrict or stop people from copying your work. Many people have become victims of plagiarism. Most of the time people never came to know that their work has been plagiarized; sometimes they find out about it but don't know who did it or how to confront him. But what if you find out that one of your works has been plagiarized; the culprit is someone you know and he is getting all the credit and appreciation? What will you to about it? Not many people are faced with this situation but unfortunately for me, this happened to me.

I have entered and won many writing competitions. Various short stories of mine have even been published because of my winning entries. I always enter my stories in competitions whenever I can. A few months back, my university sponsored a writing competition. It was a creative writing competition, participants were asked to enter any stories or articles on the topic of their choice. I, along with many of my classmates participated and I entered one of my short stories. The result came after a month. One of my classmates received the grand prize and I got the third prize. I was happy with the result as to me winning a competition or receiving a reward is not everything. The important thing is to give your best and be as creative as I can be. I congratulated my classmate wholeheartedly for his effort and wished him success in his future endeavors.

A week later, one of my friends called me and told me that the winning-story submitted by our classmate was remarkably similar to the stories which I published on a website, a few months back. I couldn't digest the fact that he plagiarized one of ...