Over the past few days I've been thinking about all the weird things I do that I believe make me a writer or at least an amateur, inexperienced shadow of a writer. Two things stood out for me which I have done for the majority of my twenty-two years on this planet and it's only now that I've realised that, although they may be strange habits and I'm risking being sectioned by mentioning them to you, they may just be part of the reason why I feel the need to create stories.
The first of these peculiar habits is easy to link to my love of story writing. When I'm out and about, particularly on public transport, I often find myself creating back stories and character profiles for people in my head. Do you see that charming old man sitting by himself? Well, he once had a great love affair to end all love affairs. And that little girl having an argument with her mother in the middle of Marks and Spencer's? She's actually an alien that fell off a space ship. I don't know why but, sometimes, I just can't help myself and I place these complete strangers in to a story and wonder what would happen to them. My second habit is quite similar in that I tend to ask a lot of silly questions (in my head) about silly things. Why has that building been derelict for so long? I wonder what it would be like if no one ever had to sleep. What does the Queen have for dinner? These are only a sample of the ridiculous things that go through my head and, as a result, the ridiculous things that I end up Googling. I do hope that there are millions of other people in the world who also experience these odd thoughts because otherwise I am more alone that I thought and that's quite scary, although it would make a good story, wouldn't it? As pompous as it sounds I like to think that my tendency to create something different in my head is a sign that I do have some creative talent bobbing around in that brain of mine and that's okay. Ever since I was a child I've loved to pretend and make things up, the only problem is that now I'm over the age of ten it isn't widely acceptable to live in your own world. So I'm glad we had this talk. If you didn't already know that I'm a bit of a weirdo then you do now and it's good to get these things out of the way, I feel. Just be careful if you ever see me on your local high street; I might just be deciding whether you're a serial killer or not.
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