Feel what you Write.. Feel what you Act

Ever wonder how a writer is able to connect, how an actor is able to make you love, cry and laugh at the same time. I am amazed, to think how could it happen. Can a writer write something about that he has not experienced or felt and yet connect. Fiction, I understand. But how can the emotions be felt if you don't connect with the emotions of the characters? How come that tragedy or that love depicted in the best selling novels be so real? How can that girl of your dreams get those emotions on her face while making love if she has not already been in love?

I have seen that the best work on the novelists have come in extreme conditions. They have been heartbroken, poor, been in love and then, not. Some of the best actors have had tragic lives, lived less than perfect but have ruled. Was that on purpose so that they can feel all that to show and make us feel what they have felt?

I have written a few things and have made the pen work and when I look back, all that was done when I had pressure. Emotional, academical or just pressure. A normal day in life does not produce those moments. When your stomach is full, physical needs satisfied and you are just content with life, it does not produce anything. It just produces content. There does not seem any need to do anything right away. You just put away things to future and tell yourself someday you are going to write something. You tell yourself that their is a writer inside you and it is itching to get out, but is does not.

Something out of ordinary has to happen, something not so normal that will stir the everyday life and prompt you to punch in those emotions into words. Emotions that want you to burst into tears or need somebody so badly that suddenly your life seems incomplete and people who see that or read that feel that incompleteness inside. Suddenly, the content in life is gone. They see the pain in their lives, they see the love or lack thereof in their lives and just want to fill the themselves.

The grief, the sorrow, the love even though its just a story seems real.

Again I wonder how can it seems so real if it was not felt the same way. The writers I love, the actors I want to see again and again....