2 hobbies for novel writers

Every person has a hobby, which is defined by her profession and working interests. There are some hobbies that define profession. For example, a doctor might have a hobby of playing golf; perhaps, because she gets too exhaustively involved in her work and now her utmost gratification would be kissing the open skies and reaching the long stretches of land. But that's not a hobby that would help her improving her skills required for conducting surgical operations. Similarly, a writer might have a hobby of keeping handmade pens carved out of sandalwood - but that's not going to sharpen his skills. 

Since, we have intimacy with the occupation of writing; therefore, we will explore the hobbies a writer need to have to become a novel writer. Be focused, I talked about THE Novel writer - and not just any writer. There are technical writers, content writers, encyclopaedist, historians, essayists, editors - then there are dramatists, biographers, critics, poets, speechwriters, - and then there are novel writers. 

They are special people on earth, in a sense, they live a thousand lives every dying second- they don't just write novels, they create universes; they don't just write dialogues, they create living beings - they create life out of words (whether knowingly or unknowingly). And those writers who know the art of preparing balm out of the fires of life are, in fact, the artists. They are always in an avatar of the characters they create, they are always playing tunes, plucking a heavy chord of law and then picking a chord of subtle fate. 

Novel writers can adopt following hobbies to feed the artist within them.

1. Live your character

Being a novelist, one of the most productive hobbies you can ever have is being in the character. Being in the character means that think like the character. While on your dinner table, in the swimming pool, on the way to near by market - wherever and whenever - just think that how would *my character* behave and think here (think by the name of the character instead of *my character*). Make it not your practice but your favourite practice, your hobby. This will create a bond of understanding and affection with your character, it will expose the character's unprecedented facets that may even astonish you. Plus, this will refine your characters in the sense that you will then realize their limitations that this is what my character can do in this situation and this he can never do, even he has to cost his life!

2. Live real people

Being an artist, one of the most addictive hobbies you can ever have is being in the shoes of real people. You go to the shop - just look into the eyes of the shopkeeper, pause the entire cosmos for a while, and try to see the shop from his eyes. Try to breathe through his chest, think through his brain. Take a walk (in your mind) with him when he gets down to the shop's back-store, then feel the difference between your view of the shop and his view of this shop. This is just one example, there are just uncountable faces you see everyday; merge your existence with theirs and then feel the very blood that flows through their veins, that heartbeat they have, those vicious thoughts they have - feel them, think them! That's what an artist, and when this first hand experience is elegantly jotted down on the paper, you become a writer.