Monday, July 11, 2005

   My Escape
After reading a book I just bought yesterday and finished this morning at five am, I was thinking. This is how I escape the world, the havoc of it all. In my book, "Scribbler of Dreams" the two main characters had their own way of escaping. The girl wrote her feelings in her journal and the boy drew. But...can you escape by reading? Can you, mmm, express yourself by reading? Perhaps you can tell a lot about the person by reading the titles of the books, seeing their range in categories. I'm not sure about expressing yourself but I do know that it can be an escape. I use them all the time.

In my books the characters go through trials, tests, hurt, loss, gaining faith and losing faith, then romance, lust, and passion. That's what I envy. That is what I wish to experience. I want to be the first woman to go by the law allowing a woman to train to become a knight. I want to create wonderful books about the hidden world and lives of vampires; be hunted down for revealing their existence and fall in love with the vampire I crushed on in my stories and who was sent to kill me. I want to be a Celtic girl returning to her home after seven years to find her love to be a selkie. Ah, and I can do that all. The authors express everything so...so vividly and realistically.

When you're reading a book and in the passage it describes the feeling of the character's("your" seeing as you might become the character) first kiss. Or how much it tore the person apart to be seperated from her true love by death...to never see them again, to never hold them, to never feel the tickle on your neck as they whisper those three words you've longed to hear repeatedly.

Yes, that is what I long for and seem to only recieve such by reading the books I read and imagine myself as the character. Also, just to pretend that something of the sort actually happened in my life. A kiss, a loss, a near death experience-anything to make your life less dull.

So, tell me...how do you escape? I've heard the usual escape through music, literature, and writing. I want to know other ways other people escape this world of chaos.
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