While reading great works of prose, it looks so easy. Get a story. Articulate it and give it a sequential shape. What you get is a great read to provide for the reader. So easy.
But that is far easier said than done. Otherwise, everyone would be a great prose writer which is not the case. Writing prose is not trivial.
Various thoughts and ideas come to mind. The ideas even take shape of a sequence of well-planned events and occurrences. The whole story is composed of smaller sub-stories. One after the other, the scenes, acts and actions take shape in the mental image of the overall story or idea.
However, all changes when it is time to actually articulate those ideas and start writing. It becomes so difficult to write the first line that fits the imagination. It is like climbing a mountain to write the first paragraph that aptly represents the train of thoughts or ideas that instigated the writing urge in the first place.
Once it starts after many attempts, roll-backs, corrections and modifications, all ideas and imagination seem to dry up and run empty after the first paragraph or first page. Suddenly the sequence of ideas and mental image that seemed enough for a tome seem dried up after just a single page or a few hundred words. After this, one wonders at the supernatural capability of prose writers who create a great and thick book of prose with whole imaginary world of its own with hundreds of characters, scores of plots & sub-plots and dozens of scenes & situations. Such level of imagination and such level of articulation to bring that imagination into readable expressions that hook the readers for hours on end towards the written work.
Writing, like any work of creativity, is an immensely complicated task and seems much easier than it really is. One only realizes it when one tries to create a creative writing piece of one's own.
Dedicated to and in praise of all the wonderful prose writers of the world. Dreaming to have an iota of that capability.
Wednesday 14 November 2018 (9:29 PM)
But that is far easier said than done. Otherwise, everyone would be a great prose writer which is not the case. Writing prose is not trivial.
Various thoughts and ideas come to mind. The ideas even take shape of a sequence of well-planned events and occurrences. The whole story is composed of smaller sub-stories. One after the other, the scenes, acts and actions take shape in the mental image of the overall story or idea.
However, all changes when it is time to actually articulate those ideas and start writing. It becomes so difficult to write the first line that fits the imagination. It is like climbing a mountain to write the first paragraph that aptly represents the train of thoughts or ideas that instigated the writing urge in the first place.
Once it starts after many attempts, roll-backs, corrections and modifications, all ideas and imagination seem to dry up and run empty after the first paragraph or first page. Suddenly the sequence of ideas and mental image that seemed enough for a tome seem dried up after just a single page or a few hundred words. After this, one wonders at the supernatural capability of prose writers who create a great and thick book of prose with whole imaginary world of its own with hundreds of characters, scores of plots & sub-plots and dozens of scenes & situations. Such level of imagination and such level of articulation to bring that imagination into readable expressions that hook the readers for hours on end towards the written work.
Writing, like any work of creativity, is an immensely complicated task and seems much easier than it really is. One only realizes it when one tries to create a creative writing piece of one's own.
Dedicated to and in praise of all the wonderful prose writers of the world. Dreaming to have an iota of that capability.
Wednesday 14 November 2018 (9:29 PM)
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