Story is life envisaged by words. Its existence is as old as
life itself. Life is a set of conflicts so is story.
The food that is tasty is seldom good for health, the one
that is healthy seldom tastes good. The clothe that is comfortable to wear
seldom looks fashionable, the one that looks fashionable is seldom comfortable
to wear. If it is both, seldom costs reasonable. The practices that have pleasure
and full of fun are seldom allowed in the society, the one allowed have no fun
to crave for.
Everything that is lively and interesting is full of
conflicts. The more conflict the story has the more it is near life and
resembles reality. Narration devoid of conflict is not a story and that is the
reason story gets completed the moment ‘Happily-ever-after’ comes.
For instance, Ramayana is larger than life story. It is full
of life, so many conflicts at every turn but it gets finished when ‘Ram-Rajya’
is established, no conflict anymore, nobody id interested, not even saint
writer whose prime motto of writing was to sing the glory of his deity.
Story is ever increasing tension to the extent possible,
till the extent possible and arriving at a climax to permanent comfort, solace
or irony.
Seeds of thoughts:
Analyze your own life since childhood. You loved chocolates
and your mom insisted on milk; you loved literature and your teacher insisted
on Maths as you already had good marks in literature. When you grew up, you
started liking a girl in the neighborhood but her grandfather was a retired army
man. You got selected in your dream company, the most beautiful girl of your
batch also got selected but she denied the offer. She decided to open a
publishing house to become an entrepreneur.
Collect the conflicts of your own life and solutions that
you arrived at. Write to have a good story of your own.
- Amit Roop
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