It all began with the movie, “The Hours”. The lives of three women in three different time periods, undergoing mood disorders seemed as if ‘I’ was somewhere hidden in the emotions of those characters. My personality being coloured by their characteristics and ways of thinking and feeling!
I had no idea that I could get so involved in this movie that I would be in total disconnect with my present for many “hours”. I write a lot…forget the world around when I write….my characters in the short stories live, eat, drink, sleep and dream with me! The stories I write advance day-in and day-out with me, with the dialogues constantly wriggling in my mind. I thought I was really becoming a paranoid! Almost!
Writing takes you to an entirely new world….It makes you feel as if everything is possible, flexible, conceivable and free spirited! It gives you the freedom, the liberty to make things work, sound and transform as you want and the way you want them to proceed! It gives you a feeling of control over yourself and over ‘that’ something which you create!
It is a good exercise for your mind to pour out your creativity. Yet, at times, it may get on to you, where it becomes an obsession, an addiction and you start living in two worlds. In the extreme cases, like Virginia Woolf, as pictured in the movie, is so engrossed in sketching her characters of the novel she is writing that she forgets the real life she lives in! It happens to me often. I tend to discard what goes on in the real world, think of abandoning it, denying it. I am more comfortable in my stories. They give me pleasure and foremost, a control over my ownself. I make my own decisions, decide my own activities or tasks, take up those activities that I like the most to do, instead of what I am suppose to do!
It sounds too exaggerating to compare myself, with a great writer. But, it’s the character in the movie I am speaking of! I am sure most of the bloggers would agree with me, that writing gives you a relief! Not a kind of escapism, but a relief to live one’s life in those moments…. It is so liberating for your soul!!!
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Reminds me of the movie Hurricane based on the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder who learns writing in jail. He says, " It is very important to transcend the places that hold us. Writing is- It's magic. When I started writing,I discovered that I was doing more than just telling a story.See, writing is a weapon, and it's more powerful than a fist can ever be.Every time I sat down to write, I could rise above the walls of this prison.I could look out over the walls all across the state of New Jersey,and I could see Nelson Mandela in his cell writing his book.I could see Huey. I could see Dostoyevsky.I could see Victor Hugo, Emile Zola. And they would say to me, Rube, what you doin' in there? And I say, Hey, I know all you guys. It's magic, Lesra."
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