Chapter 143: How to Write A Story and Color the Pictures

Everybody, at least most of us, have a story inside us, nagging, nudging, dying for it to be told in the most unconventional way, maybe in a medium not too familiar to us but very obliging, waiting for it to be heard by the world. These stories are ours to tell, and it is within our own right to savor its moral and narrative value that it possesses inside us, escaping our subconscious into the cognizance of those who are willing to read and hear it.

That is how a story is written. It starts inside our head where the imagination is processed. We then use our own experiences to transcribe abstract images inside our head into something visual, using esoteric words to knit characters into existence, and build a world using the bricks of words and syntax, and adjectives and punctuation marks. 

But more than the writer's efforts, telling a story is also very much dependent on reader cooperation by acquiring a faculty to decode these subliminal messages into an active imagination that is continuously playing inside the minds, and to see with clarity about the scenes portrayed in the white pages of the book.

It is important that we must recognize how to see through characters' motivations, to know why they act the way they do, albeit the story may be more plot driven than coming of age. Characterization requires the colors of personality, and while characters may not normally be drawn or illustrated, the way words are articulated deeply provide the hues in which we imagine the characters in motion, with all the colors of their descriptive anatomy clearly painted in our heads.

This is how this story was intended to be told. This is how literary works must triumph, bearing an inner purpose, a higher end in foretelling the truth in the twisted mechanism of fictional worlds. And hopefully, embody the several truths it indirectly recalls.

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