What is within needs words to come out.
There is a lot within: ideas, memories, thoughts, visuals, dreams. They are craving to come out; blast out of me like a volcano that keeps boiling as the Earth grows older day by day.
My medium is words. Yes, acting is another medium but it is not in my control; and moreover, I am yet to crack the method to channelize my depths into my acting every time- sometimes it has come and worked, sometimes I have tried too hard and not been able to work it out and then got stuck and then let go and played. Acting, I have started to realize, is a beautiful discovery that I am going to make each time I play a character (s).
But I have writing - laptop, time and typing is what I need to let it out. But before that I need to play the game of pick-and-choose: pick the idea I want to write about NOW and then ponder over it, play around it and then develop it into a story, and that, needs time, regularly and religiously. Stories are forming inside me: I have these thoughts that what if I tell my own story or the stories that I have seen in my life - they are plenty - in stead of looking out of me for inspiration. Just today I saw this beautiful Japanese film called Shoplifters and the way it has been written I just wished I could reach that level of empathy and understanding of human beings. The mastery of how the writer/director understands and unravels his story through the scenes gives so much about the characters that you just cannot take your eyes off it (though I did not watch it in a single sitting because of some interjections). The writing is so simple and so the film is so visual that the story flows seamlessly and timelessly until the dramatic twists start coming up and that's when you get hooked all the more That's the kind of writing I want to achieve: the one that hooks the audience. I mean, what else do I want as an artist? That people watch the story I am telling, that they let that story sink in and feel something while they are witnessing it. That is art for me and that is the high level of cinema that I believe I can create...just that I need to add that rigor and 'deep work' in my daily routine - though I don't have one.
And what a life I am leading right now: no money in the bank, recovering from typhoid, finished a beautiful novel yesterday, watched a gorgeous film today, have started reading another book that is a professional commitment, having good and healthy food, taking my own time to do things without pressure of anybody, and started to meditate. So much good happening that I did not think about money today and it feels good somewhere. Not that I hate money but I hate the pressure that comes with the lack of it. I bet the world hates that. Who knows.
I have been thinking about the personal stories and memories that can be made into a cinema. I would like to start by writing a short story script and then step into a feature length film so that I get some confidence to start writing films (screenplays). I am not a trained in the craft of screenwriting but I have read enough about it to write. And I have started to feel that the time has come to dedicate time to it daily and spend some good quality of time in thinking over my ideas and crafting the stories whichever way I like - prose or direct screenplay - so that I can get into the groove of it. After all all writing is rewriting, say a lot of legends. I am yet to get into the stage of rewriting that I could say anything about it. Just that I believe that repetition makes things better so I would like to believe that great writing must be coming from writing the same thing again and again and of course the more you write about it the better it becomes.
It is time to take my meager craft of writing to next level: not to stop myself from writing because I do not know the exact story but just write whatever is there in my mind. At least, I should try that method out and see what works for me.
Excited .
Inspired.
Happy?
Well...
There is a lot within: ideas, memories, thoughts, visuals, dreams. They are craving to come out; blast out of me like a volcano that keeps boiling as the Earth grows older day by day.
My medium is words. Yes, acting is another medium but it is not in my control; and moreover, I am yet to crack the method to channelize my depths into my acting every time- sometimes it has come and worked, sometimes I have tried too hard and not been able to work it out and then got stuck and then let go and played. Acting, I have started to realize, is a beautiful discovery that I am going to make each time I play a character (s).
But I have writing - laptop, time and typing is what I need to let it out. But before that I need to play the game of pick-and-choose: pick the idea I want to write about NOW and then ponder over it, play around it and then develop it into a story, and that, needs time, regularly and religiously. Stories are forming inside me: I have these thoughts that what if I tell my own story or the stories that I have seen in my life - they are plenty - in stead of looking out of me for inspiration. Just today I saw this beautiful Japanese film called Shoplifters and the way it has been written I just wished I could reach that level of empathy and understanding of human beings. The mastery of how the writer/director understands and unravels his story through the scenes gives so much about the characters that you just cannot take your eyes off it (though I did not watch it in a single sitting because of some interjections). The writing is so simple and so the film is so visual that the story flows seamlessly and timelessly until the dramatic twists start coming up and that's when you get hooked all the more That's the kind of writing I want to achieve: the one that hooks the audience. I mean, what else do I want as an artist? That people watch the story I am telling, that they let that story sink in and feel something while they are witnessing it. That is art for me and that is the high level of cinema that I believe I can create...just that I need to add that rigor and 'deep work' in my daily routine - though I don't have one.
And what a life I am leading right now: no money in the bank, recovering from typhoid, finished a beautiful novel yesterday, watched a gorgeous film today, have started reading another book that is a professional commitment, having good and healthy food, taking my own time to do things without pressure of anybody, and started to meditate. So much good happening that I did not think about money today and it feels good somewhere. Not that I hate money but I hate the pressure that comes with the lack of it. I bet the world hates that. Who knows.
I have been thinking about the personal stories and memories that can be made into a cinema. I would like to start by writing a short story script and then step into a feature length film so that I get some confidence to start writing films (screenplays). I am not a trained in the craft of screenwriting but I have read enough about it to write. And I have started to feel that the time has come to dedicate time to it daily and spend some good quality of time in thinking over my ideas and crafting the stories whichever way I like - prose or direct screenplay - so that I can get into the groove of it. After all all writing is rewriting, say a lot of legends. I am yet to get into the stage of rewriting that I could say anything about it. Just that I believe that repetition makes things better so I would like to believe that great writing must be coming from writing the same thing again and again and of course the more you write about it the better it becomes.
It is time to take my meager craft of writing to next level: not to stop myself from writing because I do not know the exact story but just write whatever is there in my mind. At least, I should try that method out and see what works for me.
Excited .
Inspired.
Happy?
Well...
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