Great stories with great characters have always captured my heart. Since childhood, I have connected deeply with narratives, which is exactly the reason I knew from such a young age that I wanted to be a writer.
There’s something about that rush you get when you finish reading a novel, or watching a play, or when you reach the ending credits of a film, and you can sense that it has made a real impact on you. What is that feeling? It’s hard to explain. Depending on the nature of the story, it can be an immense pleasure, or a gut-wrenching pain. But whichever it is, it causes a shift within you.
Of course, this doesn’t happen with every book, or film, or play you read or watch. In some cases (too many) a story will end and may never cross your mind again; as though it slipped straight out of your head the second it was over, deemed unworthy of taking up the space in your brain for the real good stuff.
What is the ‘real good stuff’? I hear you ask. Well, I’m afraid I can’t tell you. It’s entirely subjective. People will always throw book and movie recommendations at you (warranted, or unwarranted), but they’re only good in their own opinion. Granted, you may share their opinion, but again, that is only your opinion.
When it comes to literature and cinema, people love to act as though this is not the case. They talk about ‘cultural masterpieces’, and ‘exemplary creative works’, as though everyone will share the view that they are phenomenal. I have no doubt that I am also guilty of inflicting my unsolicited opinions of what I deem to be a ‘great story’ onto others. But I guess that’s just what happens when you’re enthusiastic about something that has made an impact on you personally.
So, keep on enjoying whatever it is you like, and pay no notice of what anybody else thinks. If you’re not enjoying a book, pick up another one. If a film is sending to sleep, turn it off. If you’re sitting in a theatre, watching the clock and willing a play to end, maybe slip out during the interval. There is so much art out in the world; don’t waste your time with the stuff that sends your brain to sleep.
Find the stories that speak to you, and allow yourself to be absorbed.
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