Did I just spill the beans?

 "You've all come up with fantastic takes on the prompt, ya," I think to myself."Why can't I think of something out of the box?" is my soliloquy. "Ah! This one is similar to her last post. She has just changed a few lines here and there. I could do that too and complete all the challenges," the brooding continues.Hmmm....What's all this chatter about? Well, I am just spilling the beans. 'The Secret Life of Writers'."He has already published his book. Where am I heading?" are questions we keep asking ourselves. When we say don't be judgmental about others, somewhere we keep judging ourselves. We encourage fellow bloggers, we write good things about them in comments, we praise and drop hearts and hugs and kisses. But don't we feel jealous sometimes when we read some amazing stories out there? Having said this, don't assume that when we applaud, it's always fake. We genuinely like writeups that are beautifully penned, artistically constructed, and smartly complied. But, as humans, we should enjoy being one step ahead.You agree?

"Oh, she's preaching this and that through her poems and quotes," many of you may be thinking.Practice what you preach, Yes!I  know...I know... but when writers scribble their thoughts on paper, many times they aren't in complete agreement with the thoughts, either. But to impress the readers, you've got to do what you've got to do. Don't actors play villains in movies even when they are not? Don't heroines play Satisavitri when..Ahem..Ahem..they are not. Some of them claim to be virgins in front of the camera too! Sorry, this is getting away from topic. 

Back to writers' life. 

A writer is working when he is staring out of the window -Burton Rascoe. Yeah! We are so engrossed in our own world that we need a snoozing alarm to bring us back to reality. Inspirations. We find them floating just about anywhere. Daily conversations with husbands, neighbors, friends, or even maids or sabjiwalas yield the best materials.Beware, writers could make an income out of your problems too. Well, safe guarding your privacy, though. No, no, I am not trying to make writers sound like baddies. But the writer's mind is this complex sphere made up of wires and cables connected, cross-connected, fused, sparking, short-circuited. The bulbs of their brains can glow up anywhere at anytime... series, parallel, doesn't matter.

The secret lives of writers are astounding when they are in the process of writing something. The central idea or theme of the writeup/story, the description of characters, how the story leads, how she starts writing with a motif in mind and in the flow, keeps adding twists which originally weren't conceived. I call it astounding, as she gets to wander and venture through stunning scenarios. She gets to wear so many hats and feel the lives of so many characters, which she isn't in real life.

But when she's not writing, she is just an ordinary, normal, common woman trying to sustain herself just like you and me. And that is no secret. She has an ego, prejudices, self-esteem, sentiments, likes and dislikes. Her secret life may be the fantasy she has always desired.She sometimes becomes a lover, she sometimes grows old, she sometimes plays a vamp, she sometimes builds a story on concepts she never applies to herself, but she wants to try it out, to see how it feels to be in those shoes which she dreads to wear otherwise.

Just like a Shahrukh Khan has to eat rajma-chawal, sometimes, to stay alive, or a Deepika Padukone has to poop daily, even if they are the most glamorous people in B-town, so does a writer. She has to carry out her day-to-day life. She can't always keep justifying the thoughts she posted in her poetry or published in her writeups.

Stay faithful to the stories in your head- Paula Hawkins. Writers' secret lives are sometimes funny; she may stop mid-way when she's adding tadka to the dal, pull out her notepad, and scribble an excellent idea for her next writeup.

Let the tadka burn; the thoughts shouldn't shun! 

She may stop showering or may accelerate the bathing process, run out wrapped in a towel to record the lines on her phone, that hit her when the soap slipped from her hands.

A quick bath once won't make you awful, but a lost rhyme, surely, will make you regretful! 

She's a normal woman on some days. She's that mom who pampers her kids with junk food dates, or a disciplined mom who lectures them for not organising their cupboards. But at other times, she may be a mom who ignored kids fighting over the TV remote just so that she could finish her blog in peace.

Everybody has a secret life, haathi ke daat dikhane ke aur, khane ke aur, as they say. So fall in love with her writeups, keep following good poetry, compliment and cheer her, but don't judge her based on the writing!

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: When they say writing is thinking through fingers, it's absolutely a magic that happens. Life of writers is mystical that way!

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