Wednesday 25 February 2009

A Flight into Fiction...


As of late, I have been feeling compelled to move into writing more fiction and less "reality"...which I will do - but not on this blog.
It is funny how I have compartmentalized blogs in my head - as if each blogs reflects different aspects of the self...

My fiction blog about to be born soon, with not too severe birth pangs I hope, will take on a different name. This is what one does to newborns. You give them new names...

Why fiction ? Because I realized that fiction gives the necessary space and freedom to delve deeper into Reality. Fiction is capable of capturing the essence of things in a much better way, than simply writing one's thoughts...Each thought becomes a personage, each experience a character, each feeling a being...

More freedom and more space -- inner and outer freedom and space to convey the intimate details of the characters, their hidden thoughts, their secrets, their longings, their pain, their dark sides, their desires and hopes...

I am excited and thrilled at the idea...I feel like some wave of fresh air engulfing me, and am looking forward to this new voyage...to this new adventure into a vaster universe, not confined to established rules -- rules of conduct, thoughts and beliefs...

Fiction may prove to be the real Freedom, the only Freedom available...the only Freedom left.

A new language is about to be born...





Painting: Iraqi female artist, Salma Al-Alaak.