Writing is a work in solitude

7Everyone who loves writing wants to be a novelist, poet, journalist or someone who can be remembered for his words. This is the addictive idea that persuades a person to become a writer.

No wonder everyone wants to be an immortal like William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, O Henry, Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Summerset Maugham, D. H Laurence and many such noted names.

Well, these are the names a child hears during his school days and their works are introduced and taught in the class. Soon they become his ideal and unknowingly a child dreams to be a writer. He doesn’t know what path he is choosing and what does a writer mean. He knows only what his soft heart have perceived.

This idea grows with him, each day and each night, and that makes him a very different person altogether. He becomes inquisitive to know more about the complex human nature and he starts to enjoy the supply of good stories which have some interesting characters and gradually he starts to find some around him too.

He starts to believe that this world which one calls a reality is also a dream of open eyes where sometimes incidence jostles us so strongly that we lose everything and we start to learn new things, same as we read in books that there is a new beginning after each end.

He learns that story has legs. It has power to regrow and motivate us to live. He learns that life is always backed by stories, folklores and poetry. Writing is just a magic to enter into a mind of a human and see and feel one.

Story is everywhere. Life is made up of stories. It is deep within us. It is in our DNA.

Every story is once an incidence and gradually incidences after incidences story comes before us and imagination covers these all into a new world where words are the most powerful supply of life.

Every novel which is written is based on some reality. Writer looks for a minute and works long within his mind. Imagination and creativity develop a small incidence into a great story like a spark can erupt into a volcano.

Writing is an obsession. It is a way to see this is untrodden path of life which needs to be redefined, summarized, expressed and answered back.

Writing is a journey of going into the unknown which is unknown until it is all finally written. It encircles the heart, soul and body of a human, his total behavior and social environment where one learn to live. This suitable pack of world is a part of this world and imagination to go beyond and in search of better living, for better tomorrow and betterment of human.

Writing is just a way of life and writer lives within his characters and never realizes how all this makes his life cut off from his own people with whom he wants to live forever.

Writers’ life is like a child’s heart, always inquiring and inquisitive to learn something new. A child never realizes when he has grown and life dissolved and disappeared into books and he is always in a book drunken state and living and learning all in its intoxicating influence.

He never realizes that he is no more a child and his childhood is lost somewhere in the deep forest of writing and books and the toughest facts which he now has to understand and live is the pain to live in solitude as a result of his pray to be a writer.

In fact, writing is not an art but a pain to live alone for the rest of the life without caring that one can be paid for his words, without thinking about who may like to taste the ripen fruit of exceptional mind.

The very idea to be a writer is a merit to communicate with the world and himself without actually taking the risk to actual talking with anyone around you. It is a merit to speak loud in desert where hardly anyone is seen. It is a communication to the stranger who is also looking for solitude like yours as a reader and wants to share and fill their solitude with yours.

Writing is a communication where finger succeeds over tongue and things are so descript that only true silence can go deep within the lines and see the world growing, building or moving just to throw words that are ranging our emotions.

Writing is just a way to enter into a world of others and drawing other into your world which is not a child’s play but a power of solitude which develops and speaks out loud only in silence and comes through writing.

A child is taught in school and his entire life goes on teaching him the one lesson he learnt and makes him practice.

 

 

 

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