Story!

He was drunk.

As the level of alcohol escalated through his veins, the grieves started rushing towards his brain causing Serotonin to go down.

“I wish there was a medicine for depression” he was talking to himself.

In the Brain’s screen, there were frames of his grievances that pushing him to the deepest well. The dream bike, less confident life, lost girlfriend and many more. All scattered sadness formed a pattern of force that slapped him to breakdown.

His brain was running out of Serotonin now! He stopped the force, paused the thoughts for a moment.

“What do I love the most? Writing? Oh yeah. Let me try?”

“What should I write about?”

“A story? A Poem? Or a Fancy Drama? What’s about?” He split himself into two halves, one to ask and the other to answer!

“Story is what I choose, any day”

“What’s so special about it?”

“Well, stories are crucial for our survival. Hmm maybe for my survival or at least that is what I think. It helps me envision the future. It helps me to prepare for the unexpected. We make sense of a whole new world through a story!”

“How about a good story to write then?” one said.

“A good story? There is no Bad story. Stories are not judgmental. If a plot is good it is a story. If a plot is bad it’s just a plot. It doesn’t make a story!” said the two

“Let’s think of a plot that makes readers to stand on single feet” 1^st half said

“Writing to impress? I write for myself. Not to rise dopamine in the reader!” said the antagonist half.

“Why do you even write then, if not for the readers? You can just think and leave it there!” said the half!

“It helps me to revisit” the other defending half.

“Lie! In the limelight, you are dying for validation on a daily basis! That’s the reason you write. That’s the reason you edit the same thing for the 100^th time!”

“It is not for validation! I believe – willingness to rewrite is what makes a successful story!”

“A successful story? What is that? If you don’t believe in a good story? What is this success? Number of appreciation? Oh yeah, another term for validation? You fell in your own graveyard”

“Maybe appreciation is required, but in the end, nothing matters. I enjoy writing. I enjoy the process of writing. It doesn’t even matter if anybody who read it liked or disliked. If the story is already written, that means I have enjoyed while writing and the approval or rejection is after my party!”

“That’s so generic! I enjoy the process…. I enjoy the journey over destiny!........ We are not wired to think in the abstract. We think in specific images. Be specific in what you say!”

“Well, that’s what a successful story is! Generics can’t engage anyone emotionally but specifics do.

STORY IS IN THE SPECIFICS!”

“Okay, that’s getting interesting now. Go on!”

“Also, success lies in the difference between what readers know about the story and what the writer knows about the story. Lesser the difference more the success!”

“So what else makes a story successful?”

“Hmm let me think. There should always be a clear escalating danger that somehow affects the protagonist. This way reader sticks to a story!”

“What else?”

“Story should always drive emotion but should be ordered by logic!”

“That’s a good one! Go on!”

“Empathy of the reader empowers the story. Empathy is what writers starve for! When there's is no empathy. I shall stop writing!
Oh wait, we were about to write something right?”

“May be we won't?”

“Oh really. Why is that?”

“The missing empathy!”

Soon the beer started collapsing inside him. Fresh blood circulated throughout the body reducing alcohol. The two half splits joined back in him.

“Everything seems to be melodramatic when drunk! Fucking Budweiser is a bug for wiser!” he whispered looking at the written piece of paper!