How much I have lost touch with writing becomes obvious when one is told that the crappy alliteration that makes up the title, took me 15 minutes and the assistance of thesaurus.com! Nevertheless, the title attempts to convey that I am forcing myself to sit in front of the keyboard and write something, possibly everyday. Having completed my masters (drumroll please!), I now have some time at hand to be reviving what was once a "promising talent" :P. In all due fairness, I reread a lot of my writing a month back and was pretty shocked at how much better it was than I ever thought it to be! I may not exactly be next in line for the Pulitzer, but I'm no slouch either.
Anyway, that much self praise was sufficient to jog my cells into writing a few more words, so I'll desist from indulging further. As has become the norm, whenever I write something after ages, its about wanting to write regularly, but it has never happened. If I had regular readers, I would have asked them what to write, but that was eons ago. Now there are none, and so that is not an option. I did see "Slumdog Millionaire" today, but I am going to take the high road here and not stoop to writing a review.
The other option was to write an India travelogue, but I tend to ramble more than usual in those, and plus there really isn't much to write there. The other option is to start writing long overdue testimonials for some fine folks, taking a cue from another gentleman from my grad school who is doing the same :D.
The third option, which I have taken, was to write out the options I had of what to write. Circular dependencies, anyone, anyone? :P. Anyhow, as stated, an honest attempt will be made to write something everyday at least over the next maybe 2 days. Post that, is too far ahead into the future!
On a completely unrelated topic, hear this out: http://ww.smashits.com/music/pop/play/songs/809/BREATHLESS-SHANKAR-MAHADEVAN/11790/Ghul-Raha-Hai.html
One should be able to at least:
1. Write half as well as this
2. Compose half as well as this
3. Sing half as well as this
Damn, I can't even do a tenth of either :(
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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