About 5 years back, during the time of Diwali was when I found out that I had story-telling abilities in me. I discovered for the first time that I am a creative person. Until then, I thought I was best in writing the unabridged version of my textbook in exams. I guess, I'll have to be grateful for the floods. With no electricity and mood to study for my semester exams, I started out with a rough storyline in my head and kept refining it over and over again, just in my head and narrated it to my sister and a friend of mine that evening; who couldn't believe that I had it in me to tell a story. I put it to words on my computer a couple of days later and that got me thinking that the story I had left as a cliff-hanger could be given a meaningful ending. It took me about 3 days to write the first part of the story and then I started with the second part. It took about a week for me to come up with the second-half of the story. This part, I narrated it to my friend after the week. Well, even that turned out to be quite a story. It was just a story and it remained a story for about 5 years. Until this Diwali, I was determined to finish it. Though, it was just a storyline, I felt so good and complete after putting those thoughts to words, knowing that I have taken my first step to finish something that I had started.
P.S. I aim to have at least a publishable version of the story in the next 5 years.
Bon Nuit!
S.
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