Hassan Zayour's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"
Blending In
As affirmed earlier, the terminal purpose of writing is to express one's self, despite the quality of the outcome. What's unique about the writing process is that it gives you a chance to investigate deeper into your psyche, manifest in the form of social characters that abide by a certain hierarchy in the imaginative realm.
After establishing this notion in the previous post, it is now of preeminent concern to discuss the methods of blending in with what you confront. The more imaginative you are, the easier it is to materialize these events in your mind to be as empirically interactive as possible.
When I first came across these practices, I was around 15, and my creative abilities were somehow limited to the visual sensibilities. Even those were blurry, so my interactions with the fictional world were minimal. With time, one learns to visualize more events and to even add other senses, such as touching, smelling, tasting, and hearing. This way, when you encounter a character, you could lucidly represent him/her, in addition to describing the existing settings. Remember: It's all in the small details. These features give feelings to what you're saying, but be careful not to overdo it.
Usually, when you are out on a hunt for an interesting story to write about in the imaginative realm, you will most probably come across a group of characters that will, later on, turn out to be evinced in one persona. You will identify this group by a certain sign they give off, which usually is the tricky part. Signs are usually present in the forms of absurd and repetitive behaviors. They could also be a common collective feeling, such as common signs of distress.
Once you identify that, the collection would then dismiss itself and reappear as a single unit that manifests this collective psyche the most. It's somehow a natural selective method that yields a character that mirrors the group.
After speculating on that, it becomes obvious that these models symbolize events you have been through, but experiences that have a common side to them. The way your memory surfaces them out for you to examine in your imagination is in the appearance of characters that have things in joint, just like the previous events.
For example, all events of suffering that I might have been through are stored in my memory. The way I saw them in the imaginative realm is in the form of a group of depressed people. They were expression-less, distressed, gloomy, and aggressive when approached. It took me a long time to blend in with them and try to understand what's the common thing they retain.
The moment I discovered they all shared some form of suffering, the affliction I have experienced, my psyche combined them all into the character "John". This figure becomes the embodiment of their collective consciousness, which is ultimately the group of incidents I underwent and that had a notable impact on my personality. He's the character I chose to be the main focus in my recent book: "On Suffering: The Nine Rules of a Night Crawler."
Hopefully, in the next post, I will be discussing my way of approaching this manifestation in an attempt of evoking the best experience out of it.
After establishing this notion in the previous post, it is now of preeminent concern to discuss the methods of blending in with what you confront. The more imaginative you are, the easier it is to materialize these events in your mind to be as empirically interactive as possible.
When I first came across these practices, I was around 15, and my creative abilities were somehow limited to the visual sensibilities. Even those were blurry, so my interactions with the fictional world were minimal. With time, one learns to visualize more events and to even add other senses, such as touching, smelling, tasting, and hearing. This way, when you encounter a character, you could lucidly represent him/her, in addition to describing the existing settings. Remember: It's all in the small details. These features give feelings to what you're saying, but be careful not to overdo it.
Usually, when you are out on a hunt for an interesting story to write about in the imaginative realm, you will most probably come across a group of characters that will, later on, turn out to be evinced in one persona. You will identify this group by a certain sign they give off, which usually is the tricky part. Signs are usually present in the forms of absurd and repetitive behaviors. They could also be a common collective feeling, such as common signs of distress.
Once you identify that, the collection would then dismiss itself and reappear as a single unit that manifests this collective psyche the most. It's somehow a natural selective method that yields a character that mirrors the group.
After speculating on that, it becomes obvious that these models symbolize events you have been through, but experiences that have a common side to them. The way your memory surfaces them out for you to examine in your imagination is in the appearance of characters that have things in joint, just like the previous events.
For example, all events of suffering that I might have been through are stored in my memory. The way I saw them in the imaginative realm is in the form of a group of depressed people. They were expression-less, distressed, gloomy, and aggressive when approached. It took me a long time to blend in with them and try to understand what's the common thing they retain.
The moment I discovered they all shared some form of suffering, the affliction I have experienced, my psyche combined them all into the character "John". This figure becomes the embodiment of their collective consciousness, which is ultimately the group of incidents I underwent and that had a notable impact on my personality. He's the character I chose to be the main focus in my recent book: "On Suffering: The Nine Rules of a Night Crawler."
Hopefully, in the next post, I will be discussing my way of approaching this manifestation in an attempt of evoking the best experience out of it.
