Creativity is entirely a product of pure instincts and not by the set of guidelines!
I could never plan before writing. It just comes to me as a spontaneous thought. All I have to do is to fall into the situation and the characters in my mind. Rest simply happens with the flow. Its precisely a feeling of meditating! You enter an altogether different world- a world that your creative mind and your thoughts have build with the people who you imagine to see or talk.
If ever I had bound myself to any kinds of rules and guidelines, the result had always been more of made up emotions and not something that could be said to be internal revelations of a heart. It's, in fact, a foolproof way to vent out your innermost feelings and design them to the most compassionate way so that it truly becomes a place where every reader finds their haven of thoughts. Maybe that's why some stories or books take us to a journey where we always wanted to be. It's an escapism for the writer as well as the reader who are bonded together in a common thought and get to feel similarly.
One of my readers ended up crying while reading a tragic scene from THE GIFTED ANALOGY. I think that was the greatest compliment any writer could get..... to make your reader feel exactly the same like you wanted them to feel!!
My thoughts are surely not bounded with any geographical strings. I preferred to design my own world. Like you can see I set up the story in a fictitious place called Angelston in my novel THE GIFTED ANALOGY which is likely to be a small town somewhere in Europe. My readers were surprised to know that such place doesn't exist and that no one has ever been there.
That's the beauty of art and creativity! A writer should possess the most important quality of expressing the waves of thoughts in the most beautiful way as if painting a picture!!
Saturday 22 June 2013
Monday 3 June 2013
Why writing fantasy stories attracts writers more (including me)?
It is an often asked question why as a writer I don't write about the political issues or social issues? The answer is clear enough that don't we already have many newspapers and news channels to discuss about that? As a reader I had always picked up those books that offered me some time out, those that make me smile or laugh. Bothering the whole time about the world and people, etc., I started feeling an urge to find something to make me feel light and better. Something that is always missing in our day to day life.
Our lifestyles and behavioral actions have become so calculative and cold that sometimes we start feeling that what's the thing that's missing in our perfect life.
If we love someone, we want to be with him or her, but then what else to do? People have forgotten the ways to lure someone and make the person feel special. If it's the gift or expensive dinner that solves the purpose, then think again. It may do that temporarily, but unfortunately, it's forgotten soon before the next argument. Then due to low tolerance, we admit to ourselves that the person was not worth our efforts.
So, coming back to the topic, myths, legends and fantasies drive you to the other world where nothing is real. It works as a pleasant time out. Readers feel as if living in an altogether different world, an Escapism!
And when your mind is free and flying, you get better ideas.
Therefore, when I held my pen, I knew exactly what kind of genre would I prefer. As my story moved forward, I felt myself living in that dream. It was equal to meditating and relaxing your senses from the out world stress. I found a vent to release and shape my dreams into words and decorate it with my inner most feelings. It has turned out to be the most successful exercise to de stress my mind and make myself escape to a world that I had built exclusively for myself , the one that is perfect and less exhausting.
I'm sure many other writers who write fantasies have felt the same, living in their characters, forming their own situations, and dealing with them in their own perfect way. That is the beauty of myths and fantasies, although they are simple and pleasing, yet they teach you life's biggest lessons of how to deal with the crisis in an innocent way with a simple virtue you have in yourself. All we have to do is live with it and never give up!
So, I feel if I need to send a message, then I would prefer to locate it in a story that makes the message sound easy and every reader could associate it with themselves. Then fantasy could be counted as a good option because we all are the heroes of our own lives and we are the ones who can make the difference to ourselves.
Our lifestyles and behavioral actions have become so calculative and cold that sometimes we start feeling that what's the thing that's missing in our perfect life.
If we love someone, we want to be with him or her, but then what else to do? People have forgotten the ways to lure someone and make the person feel special. If it's the gift or expensive dinner that solves the purpose, then think again. It may do that temporarily, but unfortunately, it's forgotten soon before the next argument. Then due to low tolerance, we admit to ourselves that the person was not worth our efforts.
So, coming back to the topic, myths, legends and fantasies drive you to the other world where nothing is real. It works as a pleasant time out. Readers feel as if living in an altogether different world, an Escapism!
And when your mind is free and flying, you get better ideas.
Therefore, when I held my pen, I knew exactly what kind of genre would I prefer. As my story moved forward, I felt myself living in that dream. It was equal to meditating and relaxing your senses from the out world stress. I found a vent to release and shape my dreams into words and decorate it with my inner most feelings. It has turned out to be the most successful exercise to de stress my mind and make myself escape to a world that I had built exclusively for myself , the one that is perfect and less exhausting.
I'm sure many other writers who write fantasies have felt the same, living in their characters, forming their own situations, and dealing with them in their own perfect way. That is the beauty of myths and fantasies, although they are simple and pleasing, yet they teach you life's biggest lessons of how to deal with the crisis in an innocent way with a simple virtue you have in yourself. All we have to do is live with it and never give up!
So, I feel if I need to send a message, then I would prefer to locate it in a story that makes the message sound easy and every reader could associate it with themselves. Then fantasy could be counted as a good option because we all are the heroes of our own lives and we are the ones who can make the difference to ourselves.
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