#An Author in bed.
Being an Author wasn’t a planned deal for me.
It just happened one day when I excepted a challenge from my partner to make a book about the most silliest concept we thought. It was just his way of getting me kick started.
Since as far back as I can recall, my brain would make up stories to fill in the boring jobless times in my day spent alone in the house!
Like all kids with working parents, mine had no choice to leave me home with tv and art supplies. One can only watch so much tv! (I am talking about the time before TV was a 24 hour deal & before internet was filled with brain numbing videos.)
So, I would spend the rest of the time day dreaming, imagining and making up stories. A few of those would sneak-in my head to kept me from falling asleep in my school. With the times when the numbers from my math books felt like dancing in front of my eyes. Helped an awful lot when I had to finish a not so favourite history homework. (That sums up that I wasn’t too great in school. Thankful I never failed.)
Stories follow us everywhere. We are all born as artist and authors. Imagination is the only thing that keeps us tethered to our childhood innocence. The one natural talent we were born with.
Even when I grew up and hanged around in cafes and restaurants after my job, I would often observe people around me sitting and enjoying their meals.
My mind would wonder and make up stories around them. My version of about what their life might be like.
Sounds a little intrusive. But trust me it’s incisive.
After watching a lot of Author MasterClasses i figured I wasn’t alone, in fact all the great authors did that. (frankly I was a little relieved.)
I don’t think I would have ever given it enough though until I started telling my daughter silly bedtime stories. A remixed version of same old stories she had grown too bored with. She simply loved my more funnier remixed versions and we’d spend nights laughing. Together, we even went ahead and started making original ones. One thing led to another and I was somehow an author!
But story telling to your child in your house is much different than publishing one. As a grown up we’d all festered a fear of opinions. Especially social opinions. Bad reviews and clear rejection.
After all I am just an artist or a small business entrepreneur, with no withholding long resume of legal or official jobs.
At the far end of all Phobias, all you really need is an ignorant courage of just being yourself!
In my case it was that silly challenge I overtook. There was no stopping then.
I wrote all the things that I’d love to read.
Characters I created and wrote about, were people I might have met at some point in my life. I just thought of them at some different setting or locations.
Talking about locations I sometimes write about places I’ve never been to, At-least not until I wrote about them.
But then again H. G. Wells didn’t really had to Time Travel for writing about it or Jules Verne didn’t had to Journey to the Centre of the Earth to envision it. (or if he did, we might never know!)
Get inspired, research and created a narrative converting it into your story.
I enjoyed making mine, I hope you enjoy reading them as much.
Words are driving me into the unknown. I am loving the journey. Not in a rush to find the perfect destination anytime soon.
Life is a learning curve that might never stop taking turns.
I’m Sanyukta Stargazer & Here are the Books I enjoyed writing.