Why to write

Why exactly I want to wrote to book. Isn't it a good topic to write about. Don't know if I'm the only one finding it funny. Writing a blog about wanting to write a book
Anyway compared to my fetish about reading, I was always very reticent about the other two aspects of communication namely speaking and writing.
The best way to describe it is perhaps the remarks written in my report card in fifth grade. " sober but social". I don't even know the meaning of sober. I find out much later.
At a very later stage in my life. I realized two things.
One, how true that remark in my report card was. Even though I'm very reserve in nature. I love to tell stories to people. I'm a very good liar. I use to make the instances in my mundane life interesting by exaggerating them. I use to explain movie stories, comics to my friends. Then someone pointed out that he has also watched that particular movie. And my story is not exactly as per the book. But no doubt it is more exciting than the original book

And second is that I love writing. In the first year of my job (Just after college). I had a brief stint in a socialist youth organisation. One of the role in which I did well was writing pamphlets. Though it was not even close to story or blog writing. But It has the same elements nonetheless.

Coming back to my reserve nature. One of major initiative ever taken by me to overcome this hindrance also involves writing.

I moved to big bad world of Delhi NCR in 2011. My situation as exactly same as that of a dear in headlight. My limitation in interacting with other due to my reserve nature was all the more visible in the cut-throat world of Delhi compare to small town of Chandigarh from where I had come from.
Luckily in 2012 I attended a meeting of toastmaster with a colleague and immedietaly realised what I had to do to improve my public speaking.

So winning a rare victory against procrastination I joined toastmaster. I even managed to clear first stage of toastmasters (10 speeches). Even as last half of this target was a big drag. But this post is not about toastmasters. While in toastmasters I realised that I love writing speeches. Perhaps more than delivering those speeches on the stage. It was a plateform where in a way I delivered my own written stories. In toastmasters I get to know about a definite structure of speech. Consisting of a definite beginning, body and conclusion.
The ultimate irony is that one of the reason of my leaving toastmasters is that I could not come up with ideas interesting enough to write speeches upon.
Perhaps I experienced writers block.
But apart from giving me much needed confidence about public speaking. Toastmasters also gave me confidence about writing speeches.
And perhaps that was the stage from where I seriously contemplate about writing a book.
It is then no co-incidence then that I started this blog at roughly the same time I joined Toastmasters.

Thus I decided to write a book (Add this in bold in my bucket list)....

And where I am right now progress wise.
In the all too familiar flight with self doubts, wondering If I really have it in me to write a book , become an author.

My initial attempts at writing could not progress beyond writing few lines. Then big break in between. All I have written till now is a situation which vagely resembles a plot idea and some interesting anecdotes. How I will manage to transform this into a book. Only time will tell.

All that I know for sure is one thing. Unlike the other seemingly difficult targets that I have managed to achieve somewhat. To achieve this target. Hardwork is not enough. Its not something you can acquire by practicing daily because lets face it. what will you write if nothing comes to you mind.
Staring at the blank sheets or blank pc screen actually can be very depressing. But I'm not ready to give up yet!!!

My reading glasses the bestseller she wrote

Read another book from Ravi Subramanian. The bestseller she wrote.
This is the first book whose title doesn't contains the word bank, I thought the maybe in this story, there will be no reference to the bank as is the case with other books by the same author. But I was proved wrong.
Here again the protagonist as well as all major characters are working in bank.
The only deviation was that the plot is based outside the back. The theme was about personal lives of those people whereas in earlier books the plot was based on professional lives of the characters.
As the last book I read from the same author was Incredible banker which has a major plot twist based on naxalites. And as in this book also there is a major reference to Naxals. I has a feeling of Deja Vu. But at most this incident was a blind turn (Maybe intentionally put by author so that the readers will be surprised at the end to know that there was no naxal connection. 

But on the other end, for readers who have not read his earlier book, This will be come as an unexplained part.

Also the main thorn in the flesh for this week is that the relationship between Aditya and Shreya is not explained in this book. Its an extra-maritial affair alright and I can understand that both were themselves confused about their feelings about each other. But at-least could have given us some sneak peak into the turmoils in their minds, which is invariable when you are confused about your feelings for the other person.
Another sore points is that unlike authors previous books, Here the final twist was more of a case of tying loose ends.
The female protagonist Shreya says that she doesn't reads Indian authors book specially thriller, The only author she has read is the male protagonist itself. It can be interpret as self depreciating humor but dont know why it looks to me like an arrogant statement.
The climax is also too fairy tale - like, Something which is hard to digest in a thriller showing grey shades of everyone.
But there are some things I liked about this books.
First I like the Idea of book about a best-seller author and a wannabe best-seller author.
The idea of possessiveness, ambition, pride and jealousy is also explained very well through its characters, In fact each of its characters is used as metaphor for one this feelings. e.g.
The main protagonist Aditya is all about ego and pride.
Shreya is shown as image of possessiveness and ambition
And Aditya's friend Prakash is driven by Jealousy
The flow is good and narration tight. The professional environment depicted looks beleivable
A good read which can be finished in one long sitting

The narrative moves at a tight pace and the characters of Shreya keeps readers guessing