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I recently had the pleasure of watching Marc Forster's film, Stranger Than Fiction, which I found to be a delightfully charming comedy, cleverly written by writer first-timer Zach Helm. I give it two guitars up. Way up. (Platonism speaking, of course).

It's about an uptight IRS agent Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) who realizes that his mundane life is being narrated by the voice of a chain smoking novelist played by Emma Thompson. The novelist is suffering from a bad case of writer's block and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown because she can not decide the end of his story.

Going crazy with the constant narration in his head, which gives a perfection every move, Crick asks the help of a literature professor (Dustin Hoffman) to help find your voice. To his great shock and dismay, Crick discovers that the voice of his narrator belongs to this eccentric author that writes tragedies in which her heroes are dead.

Crick, but do not want to die! For the first time in his life, he is discovering who he really is and what their passions are true. It aims to meet the author with the determination to alter their fate. And at the meeting, the two worlds collide. The author is petrified to see that your main character came to life and he is very real indeed.

I can certainly relate to this film as a writer working on my first inspirational novel. The movie raises some intriguing questions: What does it mean to be real? To find voice? To express a voice? Who is narrating our story? Destination can be changed? What are the limits of fiction and non-fiction collide?

I certainly do not pretend to know the answers. I can only share my perspective as a writer. One of the challenges writers face is to know their characters inside and out and have a thorough understanding of the world they have created so that everything magically comes to life. As the history of writing guru, Robert McKee, likes to say, "Not a sparrow should fall in the world of a writer who does not know."

I believe in a sense that we are all writers. We are writers of our own game. In The Hero Soul ( target = "_blank" http://www.HeroSoul.com href = "> http://www.HeroSoul.com), I close the last chapter of my book with a quote from Shakespeare:

"All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And a man in his time plays many pieces
His acts being seven ages. "

The world is a stage where we performed. Each was composed of acts and scenes of the game. But is our game. We choose how we act in each scene moment by moment. What kind of game you want to write? What kind of life you want to live?

Realizing that he will be killed, Harold Crick asks the literary professor for advice. The teacher gives him a seemingly simple answer: "Go live your life! Do what you love to do!"

At first, Crick is offended by the banality of the teacher, but then he realizes he has no control over his mortality and decides to do just that: live your life. He always wanted to play guitar, but never had time. For the first time in his life, he goes into a guitar shop and sees this wicked turquoise guitar starring back his. He picks up the guitar and starts strumming. At that moment, your life becomes a tragedy into a divine comedy.

What have we been denying ourselves? What kind of game we want to have a starring role in? Sometimes we act in an "If Only" play a bit part in shoulding everything about ourselves until we mired deep in our own pile of dung. I should write a novel. I should have. I should be a painter. I must start my own business. I must go on dream holiday. If only I was younger. If I was older. If I had the money. If I had time.

In the professional world of writing, there is a clause known as the "kill rate". The kill fee is a fee paid by the publisher to the writer for an assigned piece of writing that is dead and never published. Is usually a percentage of the total amount that was originally agreed between the publisher and writer. Although there may be many reasons for rejecting a piece, the rate of killing is often executed because the writing simply is not up to par.

When we're not being the best of us, when we do not express our unique voice, when we are not being true to ourselves and not doing what they love doing, something within us dies. Life then pays us a fee of killing: something less than what they really deserve.

We are living a life that is worthy of being published, or we live a life of mediocrity and accept the rate of killing attributed us?

About the Author:

Sharif Khan (

http://www.herosoul.com
;
sharif@herosoul.com
) is a freelance writer, inspirational keynote speaker, and author of the leadership bestseller, "Psychology of the Hero Soul." He also publishes his success blog at

http://www.sharifkhan.blogspot.com
. To contact Sharif, call 416-417-1259.

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