The day was spent in school, reviewing for all four subjects of the comprehensive exams. HJPP had never felt so tensed, drained, and stupefied all at once in her whole life. She's had final exams in other subjects before--and studying for those exams were not as hard as studying for next week's comprehensive exams. Could this be how preparing for the bar exam feels like? Oh dear.
Very early again, she found her place inside the library. She pondered about literature as a whole, and then about fiction. The elements of fiction are easy to enumerate, even with eyes closed. The bigger challenge, however, is in examining them individually as part of a bigger plot. To say the least, plots in themselves are already too complicated for one's life. It makes her wonder how fiction writers master all of those.
True, fiction is the one thing that has the power to make any man feel dumber than ever. It's the most mathematical thing in the world, except unlike mathematics, it works beyond algorithms and axioms. Second to making people feel dumb, it also has the power to elicit thought and feelings. Math can't do that (...or could it?). But just like mathematics, it could be agreed that once a person has mastered the rudiments of it, writing it would be doable and bearable if not easy. That also goes to say that a person must know "rules" before he could break them. Fiction writers are so hard-core. They're liars, rule-breakers, and geniuses, too.
This conversation with a school mate came that afternoon:
Person: You're a writer, right?
HJPP: Yeah.
Person: Are you any good?
HJPP: What do you mean am I any good? That's not a thing you ask someone...
Person: Oh, sorry. I meant to say, how often do you write, and have any of your works been published?
HJPP: Poetry, yes. I don't know about those other contest entries that won, if they've been published or not. I don't really care, lol. I've been writing every day coz it's rather compulsary. And because I just like to... Well, everyone writes every day. Let's just say that if for one day you don't touch a pen, you become less human. That's just my theory.
Person: But I don't always touch my pen...
HJPP: Ever wondered why people like you are so ordinary? Yeah. Ordinary.
HJPP dodges "writer questions" all the time, mainly because she feels there isn't much about her writing to talk about. Yet.
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