This week I had a chance to learn something very exciting. At times when you embark on a creative journey, there are moments when your creative process and thinking is halted. During these obstacles the best way is to turn to the books and look for solutions that are validated by masters of the game.
My moment of epiphany came when I realized that the story of my thesis is stuck at a certain point. For some odd reason I was not able to take the story forward in a way that would do justice to this sacred journey. In that very moment of weakness, one of my professors taught me a new way to devise the characters and their journey.
The new modus operandi involved building a story around every character. The technique is to break brain mass story into different components. In my case, these components are the start, the middle and the end of the story. The objective of this exercise is to create equilibrium. The newly found balance will naturally break the stalemate and carry the story forward. The story will go on and on while I need to ensure only one thing, every character must return to its beginning. The storyteller only unleashes the loop, while the threads will carefully come together to close the knit.
However, the journey may not be that easy. You will keep on looking at your work, finding layers after layers of detail and depth. A chain reaction will result into careful evaluation of your every step until the whole idea is torn apart and glued again until you begin to see perfection in it. That is the beauty of art. By the looks of it every element is placed where it should. Down to the very minute detail the whole lump is in order. All of this only made possible by the ugliness that remains hidden under this. In its own way, it is a beautiful ugliness that we aim for.
Arsalan Awais 