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Are you a story teller; or are you a Writer; or they just the same
comprehending colloquial ideology? Bored are you, already?
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Have you ever thought as a writer, reader or both are you a story teller?
Have it ever occur to you as thinker, orator, or say as a poet, are you a story
teller?
Have you ever had dreams, sequences after sequences, finding yourself romancing
(for some the instances may be bromancing or sizzling on the grooves of
sisterhood, depending on how you wish to fantasise and imagine), that has
helped you to pen or a nibble of thought, and does this make you a randomised
muser or are you a story teller?
“How are story tellers different from writers?”, “Do you have to be a good
story teller to be a writer?”, “And are all writers good story tellers?”
With these few major bits to solve this pertinent question that peeks into to
all minds once in a while, I decided to outpour my understanding of this entire
notion of storytelling. Yes, the previous statement sounds a bit
jargonised in its own way of representation, but that’s what writing is all
about. To be honest to you, it’s all about scribblings down your thoughts in a
thread-like or web-entangled fashion and drafting it presentably. It’s all
about making it look like a product of an effortless chiselled stuff. See I could
have done it again. By constructing complicated sentences, Storytelling is
about simplying your thoughts and making it resonates along with every section
of your audiences. Some may like it, some may revert to it, but your intent
must be to make it reach to all. Constructing long and strenuous sentences,
which are grammatically correct but may not be able to grasp the fine chords of
the reader’s mind, or can they?
Now story telling takes a completely different route or approach. Poetry,
Puppeteering, Music, Movies, Dance forms, skits and many other means and
techniques have been adopted by the story tellers of the past and present
timeline to tie a plot or a sequence of events that left the world awed and
speechless. I think having a blessed childhood, with your parents and elders
showering tailored and curtailed tales of Kings, Queens, princes, and
princesses, witches and hags; their quests, adventures and many thing more,
creates a charm and helps netting a world which solely belongs to you and
nobody else. And depending on how effortlessly the story teller brews his/her
aroma of scribblets into a skittle of chivalry, honour, morality, pain and many
things more with his/her fine and articulated choice of words, perfect pauses
and precise presentation of how the characters he builds upon fits in a seeming
a jumbled world makes the art of story telling a stuff of great amusement,
interest and off course entertainment.
There are many
writers, may be in hundreds, who adopt the story-telling style of writing.
Mostly these sorts of books are aimed to attract the children and the young
audiences scripted the narratives in a meticulous manner. But there are others
who know the art to enchant and enthral their audiences with their manner of
storytelling. The likes to Tolkien, Doyle, Blyton, and many writers from our
contemporary time or contributing to the vast array of literature has been
successfully able to design and deliver such a sculpture of story-telling. The
greatest skill that a story teller possesses is the art to seam the local plots
into a global phenomenon which is universally appealing sets in a marvellous
feast for their readers.
Unlike many
writers, story tellers (although many are soliloquy and self-absorbed) are
often regarded as beings keen observant to the environment where they exist and
seek to replicate the occurrence of events or traits of unique characters
blended with imagination into a far superior diverse-logue of experiences
which leaves behind his/her foot prints in the minds of their audiences. People
revere them, respect them and remember them for their skills and that what
makes story tellers emblem of that timeline. People may forget who the story
tellers are but no one forgets memorable stories and they pass on from
generation after generations to seekers and traders of stories and tales.
Their sketches and scripts anecdotally often reflect the culture, political,
psychologically, socio-economic ideology and the evolutionary road the art form
of storytelling has diligently taken. Whether pedantic or not, at times
regressive, at others progressive in its own subtle manner, stories help to
fill in the dots and voids. It's very essential for a story teller to be able
to represent and replicate their present in a very pristine form. Writers tend
to garble out the gracious plethora of musing into a more coarse way,
cultivating seeds of thoughts on not-so reliable territory. Story tellers are
wittily committed and aware of the territory whether they inherit it or have
trespassed in it.
Personally speaking, it is my believe, after reading a notable amount of
historical books and stuff, story-tellers also holds the key to the future by
shaping our mind and taste with verses of their views, value and many things
more. Human beings must realize we are heading towards a time where implanting
false and fabricated facts in the form of “Post truth” is an undeniable reality
and story tellers do bang their beats upon that. We also know how story tellers
played a crucial role in shaping the views, perception, ideology and
understanding of a world that we exist today. I believe that pen is definitely
mightier than the sword and have swiftly affected many civilizations, their
upsurge, reputation and at times their downfall. This burden of responsibility
must be carried duly with caution. Writers those who fail to do so, are lost
forever in the sandstorm in this arid and humid desert of desolation, where
reality and fiction in a coitus of ephemeral elegance copiously exists, where
writers (storytellers and wannabes) like it or not.
