Promoting ‘Fiction and Truth’
A little off-topic but just wanted to promote another blog that I have started at http://opera.latestinindia.com to talk about fiction, personal stuff, creative writing, and generally anything weird that I come across – and which is not very suitable for this blog. I intend to write stuff that relates to my life (other than business and technology), may contain work of my imagination and many a times will be a mix of the two.
To set the mood and get some initial content on the blog, I will be copying the posts from the first ever blog I created – at Sulekha (beware, some really cheesy posts are there). The last post I wrote on Sulekha was when I was still working in the US and none of the posts had nothing to do with business or technology. So, if you intend to read up about just technology / business, please don’t bother to go to the other one.
As I re-read my posts that I made on Fiction and Truth, I can safely say that my thought-process and maturity level has changed a lot in the past 2 years when I returned back to India. For good or bad – I am going to make a commitment to update the other blog reasonably frequently, even though my first priority will always be LatestInIndia.com.
I recommend the following book “The lie that tells a truth : a guide to fiction writing by John Dufresne”. If anyone wants to get a interesting grasp of what it takes to write fiction, then this book serves as a good jumping off point. The one thing I don’t have the courage to do is write fiction because great fiction writing takes an incredible amount of patience and time. The upside of being courageous enough to tackle fiction writing is that it will also change the very way one looks at the world. Fiction writing can be a pleasant past time but at its best is a difficult art to learn when it leads to a doorway to the human condition.
M.