How will you define a good writer? Someone who conceals his own identity when he writes…no then he should be called the actor…who has the ability to go over his own self and adopt a different personality from his own most of the times...that requires talent….to hide behind the mask..or is it?....but of course you will get to act like one’s true self once in a while…just how many times have you heard the actors speaking of a role…’so-and-so is just like me…that’s why I enjoyed doing this role’….why?? are they not bored acting like the one’s own self in their real life? Why this obsession to play a part in reel life too…perhaps they mean they enjoy playing one’s own self in the movies which they try hard to conceal in real life…and that’s why they enjoy it…they get to play it….but nobody connects it to their own life…but that’s not the point here…I am talking abt writers..i believe a writer should always express himself in his writing….the values he believes in…the person he really is…he should never in his life try to be an actor…guess..that would spoil the whole purpose of being a writer…
good article..
ReplyDeletebut isn't actor actually enacting whats written by a writer. And if a writer always writes about his own personality then there is a good chance that he might become boring no matter how honest he is.
@ravindra...thanks for the comment...
ReplyDeleteu r right...but that can apply only when u consider the writer a film or a drama writer...i was talking abt the writers in general
hmm...
ReplyDeletebut then again writing about something that you are not or something that doesn't exist requires real imagination. wouldn't you say?
that depends on the writer...what i meant was a writer should not deviate from the basic standards, values he believes...even if he is imagining something...
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