It is funny how it took me close to 5 months to come back and start writing again. Of course I have a myriad hangers on which I could neatly place the blame, but the truth of the matter is, I just wasn't up for sharing my inner most thoughts with the keyboard of a 2 year-old IBM (sorry, LeNovo) laptop! Sorry, still a novice at the whole i-geek thing.
So on to my thought of the day...
They say that while you exhale your final breath on earth your entire life flashes before you, presumably with all the excitement that accompanies watching a first run hollywood summer hit - or at least you would hope so! And therein lies the thought that has been irking me for the past few days - what kind of a feature will my life sum up to?
If we assume, just for the sake of argument, that this idea of 'personal feature film' - a posthumous blockbuster if you will - is what's waiting for all of us after a long and fruitful stint this side of hereafter, then how do we make sure it is an contender for a 'divine' academy award? What would make a great posthumous blockbuster? The answer, in my humble opinion, is a good plot of course!! A good plot sewn around a protagonist that is constantly seeking and embracing experiences, without wasting time or energy on defining those experiences in terms of 'good' or 'bad'.
And what if the protagonist gets tired with a slow moving plot? Well... a plot re-write is in order, of course!
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