The other in a drama-writing workshop, we were asked to look back and think of a "crisis" or a turning point in our childhood that changed who we are today.
I thought... I scratched the A4 sheet with my pen... I turned those little lines into meaningless doodles. And all I discovered was a penchant for cartoon faces, leaves, lips and black-and-white alternating patterns!
I couldn't think of a SINGLE incident that stands out as changing who I am, making me what I am today. This is something that really disturbed me because everyone seems to have one incident--happy or sad--that changed their life. What does my not having one mean? Am I... shallow? Too complacent? Or worst of all--BORING?!
Not that I wish a childhood trauma upon myself, just so I have something to write about. But c'mon, how am I going to become a famous--and more importantly--RICH writer if I don't have that "something" that'll haunt me all my life, drive me first to writing, then to drinking, smoking, drugs, indiscriminate sex and finally to death! How will I face the literary world? How will I support myself (consults a previously mentioned list)--LEGALLY!
Sob... oh woe!
Ah, forget it. I'll just... traumatise myself now. Better late than never, eh? :D
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8 comments:
my vote for best post of the week goes to this [:)]
hehe.. I was disturbed too wen dattani asked us to think of our childhood..first i thought maybe its jus bad memory..lol then my eyebrows itched for some weird reason i and felt that cut i have on my left eyebrow..remembered the whole episode and scribbled this major feminist saga about how i never cried during the stitching..lol fearing i'd be made fun off..lol anyway child don worry u will find other ways to feed urself.. if nothing u can always turn to critical writing! :P
right...
you use firefox., i see.. :D
Looks like yer going about it all the wrong way. Start on indiscriminate sex and then move on through drugs, smoking and drinking, and finally on to writing. You'll have enough material to make li'l Britney go wild and you'll have Times of India queueing up to do your interview...
My 2 cents!
That's the spirit Jan! And you don't have to worry abt traumatizing yourself- main hu na. :D
Thanks, crazybugga, I'm honoured... *modest smile*
Yes, that's an excellent idea rini... criticism... If you can't join 'em, beat 'em, eh? ;)
yes, indeedy, rodent I do. When I'm not using opera, firefox is ze choice. I HATE IE!
well, santosh YOU have set me right. I knew there was something wrong with my approach. I see the error in my ways now *bows in reverence*
atomic... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *runs away in fear, suitably traumatised.
ha ha...... nicely written ......
If traumas were the sole fuels for any good playwright, then Shakespeare would have had a drunk dad, a cigar-addicted mom, girlfriends who looked like his mom, an ingrown toenail, had AIDS, rheumatism and occasional fits, a wife who cheated on him before, during and after marriage, and a son who ran away with all his works and sold them off to buy some marijuana..!
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