I just finished writing my first book.
I expected a roller coaster ride but
never the intensity of the twists and turns I encountered.
I proved that late night writing, ever-popular oftentimes doubted writers
block, caffeine overload, eternal mood swings, anxiety attacks and instant fast
food fascination are real and ever present. Those events were expected but
there is always an after taste that I didn’t see coming. It is sometimes bad
but often a discovery of me and of all these things, living and non-living and
the spaces in between, around me.
It is surprising how one character can conveniently alter the structure of my
world and then… watch another painfully destroy it. Those were heartaches.
There is also the possession… of things that are not real and so real. And the
disappointment of losing them either by necessity or by perverted natural
transition of things. No one warned me that it is more devastating to lose
someone or something you never possessed.
The challenge to create something new… fresh… unexpected, whatever the fuck that
means, out of a clean sheet of paper. These are the moments that make you want
to walk the world upside down or use a filter on your eyes or do things inside
out.
It brings out the most insane ideas especially when there are conflicts that
can’t be resolved or loose ends that need to be tied in the interest of creating a
seamless exploration of emotions and events. High after high and a low just
deep. In the end, the insane starts making sense… fitting in… settling down…
until it creates a circle leading to the end.
The guarantee is that after all those, things become much more bearable and
meaningful because I get to live twice and do life through the different me.
Eventually, I survived it without making me neither too in love nor too
indifferent because it forced me to choose my battles.
To those who helped me ink my first screenplay either by not giving a shit or
by giving a part of you voluntarily or otherwise, thank you.
Thanks for the distraction. Inspiration. The lousy debates. Unneeded cigar
breaks. Tickling sessions. Planning the out of town trips that never happened
(we always have next week, right?) Music trippin. Artworks. Eating. Perpetual
late coming. Singing through the bad times, keeping silence through the worse.
Making memories in the car… I had fun even though shelling out the dough was
just as hard as having a love life.