NO TIME LIKE NOW
An author’s greatest enemy is not lack of inspiration, it is not paucity of ideas either, it is procrastination that is passed off as ‘letting the story ripen’. Believe me fellow writers there is no time like now, we are not in Victorian times when the word terrorist wasn’t common parlance. Picture a lazy winter afternoon when sun is out after a week of cloudy skies and rain, the birds are happy to find food, they are hopping about on hungry stomachs and stray animals scraping the garbage piles at the end of the road, just the day to stretch your legs and imagination. A romantic story in the backdrop of political turmoil is shaping up in our author’s mind who is happy to be out and is admiring the apples from New Zealand which have a sticker on them to authenticate shop keeper’s claim and guess what goes off in the apple box lying at the shop’s back—why ofcourse a bomb. Even if the author were to not meet a dismal end the story idea would, because an idea has a life in mind and needs to be put on paper before it dies. So just pick your pen and write the first draft, the idea will grow as you go along and a story will evolve. If you are still jittery then work on the characters, setting or research the era, place but don’t leave it to the mind.
The Challenge
just pen down all the ideas that float in your mind.
pick the one you think you are clear about.
start writing characters, setting etc if you don't want to pen down straight.
collect material realted to work and pin it on your board.
watch the story take shape on paper.
Copyright © 2010 Rashma N.Kalsie
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