Write Concepts #4

You have to find a balance in life. Finances are a constant worry, and I keep that worry at bay by indulging in creativity. I read books and comic books in free time. Video games are not what they were before, but still I collect them just for the guy who stopped playing them to focus on studies. And I also write. When I want to write, the first thing that strikes my mind is that everything has been written before, and yet I write. I like world building. Like I want to build a noir setting in an Indian setting. It will be suitable because this country is riddled with crime and corruption. One can play with gothic and victorian era sensibilities of Western and more specifically British literature as British had ruled over India and one can make the locations to be Indian hill towns and hill stations. I can also dabble with cosmic horror though only if I add an element of science fiction as an element of truth in it. I like to dabble in Indian mythological fiction too. These are the most of the genres I indulge in on a daily basis and to contain an element of truth they need to have an element of science fiction. It's not "science fiction" per se, as much as it is science but it is more of an occult science. And by occult I do not mean magic. Though I'm also interested in stories dealing with occult, and John Constantine is one of my favourite comic book characters. Fantasies are good too, and one can have Indian mythological fantasies, I have heard Indian fantasies from my babu when I was a kid and they are no different or less than Western fantasy, just not mainstream. Magical stories are also good and I know it's very generic for a 90s kid but I have been a Harry Potter fan. Still when I write even magical stuff, I need to have an element of science fiction in it just for my satisfaction and to portray the reality of the times we live in. I do not believe in magic, at least not until now, I do, however, believe in miracles of scientific nature. I hope occult and magic exists, but I know it doesn't. I really wish putting an eagle's feather and an owl's eyes cooks up a magical concoction, and that witchcraft actually exists, as that would be tremendous and mind expanding but there is no evidence of it and I'm open minded enough to accept them if I get an evidence and see it for myself. What actually exists, however, is science and it is no less than magic. My stories will feature men and women getting their nervous systems controlled wirelessly from afar and their brains always being connected to a network or a hivemind. The latest development in the field of science are chips which make people control their computers with their brains and chips which can make blind people (who have a functioning visual cortex) see, though as much as I know, and if it is not occult, things far greater than chips in the brain have already been achieved, and not only been achieved but weaponised too. It's a win-win situation for me, if it is occult it is universal and accessible to all without discrimination, and if it is science then it is a slavery situation. And anyway my definition of occult is doing things that are magical without help of an external machine, contraption or equipment. Like telekinesis, without help of an external equipment. One idea is that I dabble with cosmic horror with the perspective of science fiction in a dystopian world where people are neurological slaves and their brain and sensory data is farmed, exploited and sold to corporations. The present project I'm working on is science crime fiction and addresses scenarios where nervous systems of people are in the control of criminal organisations and enterprises. My belief is that unknown science is occult, and I also believe that science is reproducible and also that it can be analysed. When it comes to occult or magic and science, my bet is always on science, though I do not forget to keep an open mind and be open to the fact that there is a possibility, even if minute, that ghosts really exist and that some people might perform telekinesis and other things, as we see in comic books and superhero movies, without external equipments. It's a small possibility but this small possibility keeps the magic alive. I for the time being would work on crime science fiction project that I am working on, and then I have a world building project in which I have to experiment with world building in my favourite genres, keeping the Indian setting in my mind, individually and also by combining them.