ok, if you insist you want to play this role again ... a one-man-show, writer-director-producer-actor-choreographer-costume-designer... so be it. :)
and i'll keep my end of the reading-and-commenting bargain.
shantaram... you seriously don't know? (yeah, sometimes i lose it completely.) google it then.
oh, and hey shantaram, if you're planning a movie version of the same some day, keep johnny depp informed. or maybe even leo di caprio ;-))
very much glued still, thanks to your taut narration... no matter what the others say, it actually feels good reading excerpts from this "novel" - or is it the whole novel itself?
keep it up in the next chapters...
psst... since i might go offline over the weekend... just how many more chapters to go? ;-)
sure, sree, take your time and explore all the possibilities here at sulekha! i'm sure it will be a worthwhile pursuit :)
i'm zilch at networking myself - not only in terms of skills but also in terms of intention and effort... lol.
as to the new pasture - it's plain old blogspot - nothing close to "bright green" - i guess a muted olive would do for me! ;-)
looking forward to read your next forays into blogging... good luck!
you're always welcome, my friend :)
and no, i have absolutely no contact with the publishing world... wish i had, though! :(
catch you later :)
hello sree!
good to read you here. i joined sulekha as well mostly to read. but i also wanted to post some of my writings too. posted a few of them over two months before i realised how wrong i was in assuming this was a "creative-blogging" space. i agree with you as to the content of 80% of all that is published here in the name of creative writing.
then i discoved that this site is more about social networking, of which blogging is just a part. so... to each his/her own!
there are indeed some good writers here worth reading/following... and that's why i'm still sticking around - purely as a reader and commentator. for blogging i haved moved elsewhere. not that i'm suggesting you do the same... so good luck with the "networking"! :)
john barleycorn, eh? :)
now i know why i like your prose better than your poetry.
this felt like reading you again after a long time. very vivid. lucid style. sincere, involved yet detached, the mix of pathos and humour... ![]()
(only drawback: i thought the psychoanalysis-and-philosophical-guidance-part in-between could have ben kept a little shorter, tighter.)
if i may venture with a serious piece of advice: don't waste this excellent novel-material on a blogspace... save it for a proper publisher, after doing three rounds of self-editing. really.
wishing you lots of creative energy, conviction and courage to finish what you started... :))
he he... jumping the gun is in my genes, mojo. i'm a fast thinker and very impatient, remember?
to borrow the drinking metaphor - savouring a serial-story this intense sip by sip is like demanding too much social grace from me - i'd rather gulp it down and saviour the aftertaste!! ;-))
but i'll wait for the next serving nonetheless...
go on... i'm still engrossed... (even more so)
a question: how much of this is fact and how much fiction? or is it too early or too much to divulge to the reader... you know, darmatic suspense and all... just being curious, that's all.
Me, The Enemy Within - [Part VI]
i somehow enjoyed the pevious chapters more... here it was getting a bit too lengthy and repititive at times... dunno why, though.
In the next couple of months, I was going to be thrown out of that country, be Iqbal Mirchi's right-hand man, meet my brother-in-law for the first time while being held captive in a hotel, almost get arrested, become a model coordinator, pimp, shylock and just about lose my mind.
now that's an interesting teaser! it's also my turn to ask... who's iqbal mirchi?
will be catching the next episode on sunday afternoon... happy weekend :)
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