Fiction writing makes me feel like this small speck in the universe of things, that is strangely closest to reality. You are just this little being somewhere on the vast planet, drawing thoughts out of nowhere and putting them into words. Maybe those words appearing out of thin air already carried the dots to your story, or maybe you arranged them one after the other and a story wrote itself. It is a lot like destiny, some people believe in theirs, some others write their own.
A glaring flaw, a moment of epiphany, a revulsion, a revelation, or plain happiness ... what you write carries a mysterious package to the reader, one you may not even know about. That little space is perhaps what they call art, which a lot like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder.
You don't know if someone would read this figment of your imagination that you have put together. You don't know if those who do so read with the same passion and fervour with which you strung those sentences together. You are not certain if the words put out have the effect you intend them to have. Will the reader be able to see the same joy that I see in the little boy's eyes as he holds his new gift? All you are sure of is that they will see something!
It is a lot like a message in the bottle. As you set it afloat, you know the bottle may sink or it may reach hands that don't know to read. The words may dissolve in the salty waters of the ocean. Someone can discard the paper and fill the bottle with coloured liquid. Maybe somebody could use the back of the paper to write a post-it note for themselves. You never know, but you still fold the word-laden paper and gently nudge the bottle into the sea. That little nudge is called Hope.
Nithya Rajagopal has authored Over A Samosa, a collection of ten flash fiction tales. She has also self-published two books – ThanThanaThom and A Ticket To Love. She has been a part of various anthologies, like Readomania Book Of Historical Fiction and Twilight’s Children. She blogs at theinkspear.wordpress.com. Her books are available on Amazon. Click here.
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