“Words are like ornaments, their letters the stones, their emotions the strings, their connections the knot and their wearer the souls.”
This isn’t a quote by Shakespeare nor a quote by someone passionate about jewellery (as someone who can carry the weight of words but not jewellery, I can guarantee this!). This is just me, a nobody (for the time being 😉), describing what I think about writing. Whether you got the gist of it or not, you surely will by the end of this article or in my words, confessions of a logophile lover girl!
Honestly, using ‘logophile’ is a formality. I am not someone who is “addicted” to or likes to “study” writing. By this, I mean, you won’t see me reading novels or attending book festivals. I neither possess a formal qualification in writing nor I have been forced by my parents to become the “prodigy” child by attending writing classes.
It all started with a simple sentence: “I simply love how writing makes me feel” and voila, time made me first, the sub-head of the content writing committee at a college society, second, a freelance content writer for 4 years and in the middle of all this, a girl who just who happened to discover a new hobby- writing stories.
Since childhood, I have always made greeting cards for my family on special occasions (and even at 24, I still do!). I always got appreciated by them for what I wrote and more than that, how I wrote. And when you know something, a healthy something (well, you got it!), is pumping up your confidence, you end up doing more of it, right?
From greeting card confessions to even getting appreciated for writing good essays for my English homework, I unconsciously made writing a part of everything in my life. Being an introvert, I also realised how writing about my day, a confession or simply a manifestation of the adult me by the teen me is SO EASY. Period.
To add to the fun, I also love everything romantic. Romancing in real life is something I shy away from (and I can never understand why:/). The solution I found for it is this: If you can’t romance in real life, simply romanticize in your head and if you want to breathe life into it, writing stories (or a good love letter) can do exactly that!
Since this realization, I have written a “please don’t leave me” kind of love letter and over five romantic stories- some passionate, some sad. In all this, I only want to reiterate that starting writing can come naturally- being human and a human being is enough. You have to feel what you write to make your audience feel the exact emotions you want them to feel upon reading your content. The words you write should have a voice of their own (the narrator effect is real, you see). That’s simply it.
Written By Malika Kaushik(Guest Writer)
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