Write Concepts #9

For writing there needs to be an idea to be built upon. Aesthetic writing needs to appeal to the senses. Good writing must help the reader to visualise or even make them visualise. There is a lot of good writing from the 19th and 20th centuries that can be taken as example on how to make readers feel and visualise. I prefer warm writing that packs a punch when it has to. I have been working on a novel series called Ashtabhuj since early 2010s. I remember that I was collecting inspirations for it in 2015 and I do write it when I have time. In the late 2010s after becoming acquainted with the truth of the media and publishing industry of this country I gave up the idea of formal and commercial publishing of my books, but decided that I will keep writing just for the sheer pleasure of it and publish my books on my blogs, in a serialised fashion, and on Wattpad. I update my blog regularly, and recently my blogs have been a bit political, but actually I want to write about the things I love. Comic books, nature, space and universe, stories and their writers, philosophy, the life during the 90s and my interests and hobbies. I was working on my novels, the three novels that are in my head, one of them being Ashtabhuj, but I had to take a break from working on Ashtabhuj due to crippling writer’s block. I can definitely write but when what I write doesn’t really turn out to be what I want, what use it is. Ashtabhuj started as an idea for a novel and ended up as three novel series in my head. There are two other novels, one is a noir mythological fiction and another is a science fiction political thriller. Ashtabhuj is really not turning out to be what I wanted it to be so I’m just taking a break from it and hoping to be able to write better after the break. I guess I must start collecting inspirations for Ashtabhuj again and clear my head a little bit to be able to write better. There was one more idea that I had gotten but it was way too similar to the Doom franchise so I had to discard it. Though I can write it as a series for fun. The main goal is to get my vision on the paper and unless I’m not able to do it I’ll just keep writing and discarding, but writing nevertheless. My goal is to write a warm stories that appeal the senses of the readers and makes them visualise. I hope to infuse a bit of warmth in the noir stories too while keeping the noir feel intact. In the meanwhile I’ll use my tumblr to collect inspiration and do small writing projects.