Writing is a journey which a writer travels through his words. This journey encompasses several mental struggles in order to understand characters and the way one can choose to react on any given occasion. It takes time to learn.
Learning to write is all about learning to see. If you see clearly soon your written stuffs will be clear too. In fact, your words depict pictures. They make an image in your mind. Then like a movie novel runs in the mind.
Indeed your writing takes a lot of practice before mind and hand develop a cohesive relation and an order with your words that translates words into an image in the mind of the reader.
Writing is an art. You write not what you see but the whole range of imagination that covers your mind that makes the proper existence of your imaginative world with the imaginative interactions of your imaginative characters.
Writing is a range of everything that you see and how you like to show. This is a craft which differs from one writer to another and that makes the difference between a seasoned writer and an amateur writer.
A writer is a person like any other but his mind works when most of the other minds stop and alone he keeps on working and traveling within his mind. He works in a silence and gradually his visualization becomes the seeing and then seeing becomes a part of life and story weaving becomes a part of thinking.
Traveling is one of the best ways to learn to see. It strengthens the visualization process and makes it easier.
To be a writer you have to travel a lot. Traveling doesn’t mean only physically on the land or sea but also it means traveling with the emotions and experiences of people.
When you sit with a heart that is ready to open and the face that is ready to show the range of emotions then you are also traveling. You are flowing in the undercurrent of his/ her emotions.
This traveling allows you to see and feel the vibrations which you normally don’t experience and something rightly stirs you from within and you feel to write as if you are moving in a flow. Your words are flowing like a small boat in the heavy current of water.
Your mind is busy within the image and hands are busy in giving them words and heart is weaving a craft to clearly arrange it all in an ornamental manner of an art.
Art is life. Art is everywhere and only artist sees and feels this magic.
Learning to giving words is the best what a writer can dream of doing. Learning is always a slow process and it develops slowly.
Writing grows with experience and the more you travel the better you learn to see the human emotions and its complex networking.
Human emotional range of experiences is not simple like mathematic. There are many things hidden and a few surface through instant spill of reaction.
Learning to see and measuring the depth of reaction and the background from where it is arising is often very complex, it is deeper than what is usually seen or understood.
There is no fixed formula. There is nothing like: at any given point of time one can react only like this. It is not necessary that everyone speaks or reacts in the same way. Each has their own way of reasoning and reaction and learning the difference in their reaction makes a psychological journey into a heart of each individual.
When a person is alone and ready to drop all the guards and allowing you to conquer him / her like a king, and at the same time allowing you to be earnest and noble for him or her then the masked face disappears and actual image comes before you.
The idea of listening to someone and to go into their life is one face of a coin. It can also be dangerous as it is hard to go away from his or her range of influence over you. Her influence will always stop you enter into your imagination.
Imagination is the powerful tool that allows you to go beyond what you see and perceive but it always comes after seeing and meeting several diasporas of emotions and characters.
When you are writing, it is not necessary that you are only writing what you have seen. Honestly speaking, you are using only your imagination and voicing your mind through your characters.
Characters that you have picked from your surrounding and then brushed them, reshaped them with your imagination, made them different and finally brought them on paper as new real characters.
Now they have new identity, personality and behavior. They are new persons; they are all your creativity that has made a difference. Interestingly enough, some readers will like it and some will despise. And this is also an experience of a writer.