Famous quotes can jazz up a book. Consider starting each chapter with a relevant Shakespearean play.

Many quizzical looks from co workers are there :)
Thank you for helping me get through the last two otherwise insanely boring days at work

Then I read the write-up on the NaNoWriMo site. Must say whoever it is quite good. By the time the thing ends he’s got you fired up. I almost signed up.

Now I’m back to my “must do it the write way” thing :) Why waste a month writing something that’s only half good? Or less than that…

And now, I don’t know. I’m still thinking about it. Let’s see. I still have til Nov 1 to begin. :)

Neways ATBFYBS..Can i book in advance a signed copy pls ? ;-)

ps: Rajesh, u r the one who wrote “Yet another love story” ? Then mebbe u wud like to chk out http://thewunderkids.blogspot.com to see how we murdered your effort by milking it into a (not-so-mega) serial :-)))

[pingoo] Yes, good point. Use my blog in my novel and vice versa. And nice idea about the comments as well ;) And rules? What rules? :)

[Rajesh] I don’t care much for participating in writing contests in the first place. Not something I’d like to do. I think writing is more of a therapeutic/cathartic experience, so to put it in the corniest way possible — I think writing is itself, the prize.

But then I don’t view the NaNoWriMo as much of a writing contest. It is meant to serve as a not-so-gentle prod to get you started on what, hopefully, is a project that will last much longer than a month. Perhaps i’ll write 50,000 words. Or maybe i’ll only write 5000. Maybe I won’t get a novel out of it, but i’ll manage a short-story. The point is — if I can get *some* quality writing out of the experience, it will have served its purpose.

A friend of mine was asking me – what if I simply cut and pasted a bunch of text from various sources and called it my novel? My answer to that – there’s really nothing that motivates me to cheat. There’s no fancy prize, fame or fortune associated with it. You cross the word-limit, you get mentioned on a list that has thousands of other names on it. So your only motivation is to be true to yourself and just write. And so I hope to do just that.

Sorry about the longish comment!

[Jupe] If I posted even half of my intended writing to my blog I would scare away whatever readers I have :| But its certainly a thought. Oh and TYFYBWFMBS ;)

On a related note – they have this idea of NaNoBlogMo floating around — using your blog to write the novel. Heard of it?

Just saw the site. Saw that there’s one more place on the internet with my story on the page, but not my name. Then saw the first line of Episode two, and have been trying to work up the courage to read it since then… shudder…

Until then, would you please replace my story with an extract of the first few paragraphs and replace the rest with a link that says “Read the rest of the original here” pointing to http://www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307066 so that people know the location of the original?
To learn more about why I’m asking this, read http://rja.blogspot.com/2004/08/plagiarism.html

Thanks.

And now to go back and read what became of my lovebirds. I’m “Ramki”… :’(

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Just read (or tried to read) Episode 2, and some part of Episode 3. Couldn’t bear it. Skipped to the Recap. Read a couple of paragraphs. Still couldn’t get through it. Brings tears to my eyes, really. :’(
(How do you do two tears using an emoticon?)

So, I’ve tried featuring you on my blog instead.

PS: Who told you it was titled “Yet another love story” initially? It was never published with that name.

Best of luck again.

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