FICTION IS REAL
Someone said (probably an half-smiling old bearded men), that acting and writing are the only socially acceptable forms of schizophrenia.
I never knew when exactly I switched from acting to writing and vice versa. Nevertheless, what I started by reading I finished by acting, what I finished by acting, I’d start again by writing.
Acting is writing.
One depends on the other. It’s rather natural. Don’t you ever act out in your mind while reading a book?
Acting teaches you how to connect with people, and cut out what’s not essential. The immediate feedback of the audience gives you the responsibility to simply be.
Shakespeare, of course, was an actor. He’d inhabit his characters while writing them as an actor would.
Most writers write about what they know, what they’ve seen, heard or lived, and sometimes, by mixing all of these ingredients up they create something new, a story. We could call that “method writing”.
Writing is acting.
It’s simple storytelling. International espionage is all about it.
