Iam reading Chetan Bhagath's'Five Point someone', a little late.I had already read his unexpected hit'One Night @ The Call Center'.Immaterial of what critics will call and judge him ,I find this writer quite a story teller.It is like an ordinary day ,with all the characters ,who are none but 'us' in his stories.
I can relate to his students ,who have to cram and who wants respite from exams and miniscule tests.I have recently found another novel by Grisham called"The Broker' also interesting.If I usually proceed without stopping once a story is begun ,and do not look at the back for its conclusion, I consider that author as good.Simple rating by my attention captivated.
I did read Jeffry Archer's 'false Impressions' also before beginning Grisham, and that too is well written against the 9/11 happenings.Though Iam able to read these novels easily, I have not moved forward with reading'Ayn Rand's'Romantic Manifesto",wherein she does give some clues as to writing.Overall ,if there is a story and if the characters are developed accordingly, one must be able to create a good novel.It is not that language, and style does not count.But a knowledge of the language in which we write, should give the flavor of the character and settings.
If, for example one has lived all the while in India ,and wishes to have a setting in U.S.A? I think it will be difficult.Why U.S.A.?Even a setting in another district in India will be difficult.So one must not attempt to write ,what one is not familiar with.At least to a ceratin extent knowledge of the location, in which the characters are placed is necessary.So ,what is the role of imagination here in writing?One has that ,when one deals with the charcters themselves and their feelings and interactions with one another.Here imagination has to be used.I remember Ayn Rand saying, that a certain level of steadfastness is necessary when characterisation is done.So you cannot have Alok speaking Hari's lines,to quote two characters in Bhagath's fiction.
Iam writing too,but have to develop what I write here as advise.But I do know that writing is also a feeling ,that is similar to painting or singing or sculpting.You have to have a muse inside you pushing you to write and then you will.Where is my muse?I seek her afresh now.
Blogs That I Follow.
- http://navallanga.blogspot.com
- News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
- Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
- News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
- Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
- Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.
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