On Writing

A very happy new year to you all. I know that a very few visit my blog, they are quite precious to me and I'm indebted to you for sticking to this despite my erratic posting schedules. A good news to those frequent flyers: This new year I intend writing more often. There are a few reasons why you should believe me.

1) I've just been gifted a brand new laptop by my fiancee. (An HP Pavilion D4000. I'm no gadget freak but this one is a real J LO)

2) I've got myself wired from home (Sify Gold Dial up to begin with - just being loyal to my employer)
3) I've installed some proofing and dictionary tools in my laptop. (I haven't used them yet)

If these are not convincing enough, this year, I'm marrying a woman who is going to nag me to no end about my frequent writer's blocks! For some strange reasons, she thinks I write well. So as you can see, I've thoroughly ran out of excuses for not writing. My real aspirations don't even begin with simply maintaining a successful blog. I'm still eyeing on that Booker, even though, worldwide, the importance for that prize is waning. And I have personally read a few insipid Bookers but heck, do I really care?

But there are certain important things I must do before that. Starting this year, I'm still figuring out what makes a good writing and style. It's not the exotic vocabulary if you don't have anything important to say. The important thing has to be told in an interesting way. I have failed as a writer if you are not reading this line because you must have closed this window and moved onto MSN Movies or Indiatimes Models Gallery. Giving a personal assessment, the readers of this blog are more interested in what I have to say than how I say it. I found that, except a precious few, others don't talk to me about my style at all. That's a real danger because, the moment they know my views on generally everything, they will stop reading me because they are not excited about my style, if I have one that is. So I reckon, the important task this year would be to work on my style.

I will start perhaps by identifying it!