Thought Overflow

To start off, I should say that I don’t write a lot of short stories. I write fragments. I write incidents, observations, I paint still scenes and memories with words, and to be candid, I do it quite beautifully a lot of times. I’ve written about three or four stories so far, and they’ve involved almost nameless characters. My stories highlight just some aspects of my characters’ characters. I haven’t been able to create a complete person yet. I see hues and colours of a persona, and I use it as best I can to create a body, a mind that I can control for my story.

I also find it difficult to fill in the details. I don’t know where I should set my stories. Most of the books I’ve read have been set in the western world. In fact, the only books that I’ve read that have a completely Indian setting would be books by Chetan Bhagat (”One Night @ A Call Center” and “Five Point Someone”). When I think of a character, why do I start chanting off Christian (or Western) names for him/her?

There aren’t enough stories set in and around India, and the few that are, aren’t really very good. I need to take my writing and give it a shot in the arm. I need to maybe restart from the basics, and see the big picture of what I’m trying to write rather than the technicalities. Maybe I should do more than one draft. Maybe I should look closer to the world around me. Maybe there are stories here waiting to be told?

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