Hi folks,
Happy lazy Sunday…Here’s something to ponder on…Food for thought…Hope you enjoy the post…
After dodging and dousing several able manuscripts from a list of endless ones, somehow you get yourself heard by the traditional publishers. You might think your journey ends there, but as they as, if you want results you might as well finish what you started, the saying being true for all who aspire to write or even contemplate of writing.
Nonetheless, the creative vent being quite strong, many of us still dare to forage in this not so financially fulfilling sector, since writing being one of the ways to fulfill the soul’s beckoning of following ones innate and quenching desire to be heard and give a voice to one’s story, just to enlighten a lost soul or simply to leave a mark behind before one perishes. Having said this, it is next to impossible to emerge triumphant in this sector, considering the dynamics of this although alluring yet not so financially fulfilling sector.
To add to the misery a novice being just a drop in the ocean in this vast ever eluding and far receding Industry, does not shower mercy to the ‘New Comers’ (although having published a self-help); the greatest reason being one has to be already a ‘Somebody’, prior to even attempting to enter this forlorn sector, just to become let’s say yet another ‘Somebody’ (e.g. CB an accomplished I Banker, Amish following suit and many more), just adding an extra bit of challenge to the so called ‘New Comers’. The apathy of this industry is, no matter how many ever titles one publishes, one would always be categorized as a ‘New Comer’ until one fine day, their manuscript becomes a successful movie script and hits the theater by a storm.
Happy lazy Sunday…Here’s something to ponder on…Food for thought…Hope you enjoy the post…
Plight of a novice writer…
After dodging and dousing several able manuscripts from a list of endless ones, somehow you get yourself heard by the traditional publishers. You might think your journey ends there, but as they as, if you want results you might as well finish what you started, the saying being true for all who aspire to write or even contemplate of writing.
Nonetheless, the creative vent being quite strong, many of us still dare to forage in this not so financially fulfilling sector, since writing being one of the ways to fulfill the soul’s beckoning of following ones innate and quenching desire to be heard and give a voice to one’s story, just to enlighten a lost soul or simply to leave a mark behind before one perishes. Having said this, it is next to impossible to emerge triumphant in this sector, considering the dynamics of this although alluring yet not so financially fulfilling sector.
To add to the misery a novice being just a drop in the ocean in this vast ever eluding and far receding Industry, does not shower mercy to the ‘New Comers’ (although having published a self-help); the greatest reason being one has to be already a ‘Somebody’, prior to even attempting to enter this forlorn sector, just to become let’s say yet another ‘Somebody’ (e.g. CB an accomplished I Banker, Amish following suit and many more), just adding an extra bit of challenge to the so called ‘New Comers’. The apathy of this industry is, no matter how many ever titles one publishes, one would always be categorized as a ‘New Comer’ until one fine day, their manuscript becomes a successful movie script and hits the theater by a storm.
My
earnest appeal to the Indian readers, If only they successfully and
mindfully for once, imitated this one greatest trait of the West, this
Industry wouldn’t be in such an apathetic state as one would imagine.
Ironically India being land of Sarasvati, where education and literacy
is giving utmost importance, sadly we do not like to enlighten ourselves
with a little bit of self-help to work on ourselves and fiction trails
even behind.
Having said all this, the facts and figures of this Industry are
something that many who venture out in this daredevil domain, are quite
aware of but it’s still a fascinating sector, one way to pursue ones
dream. Nonetheless I’ll only hope and pray that people of this country
wake up and adopt this one missed out trait from the west which could be
the only saving grace for this creative vent yet fast receding
Industry.
Last but not the least I would only like to say this also
speaking for my fellow comrades, that it is easy to give a vent to ones
creativity in the form of writing, but it is very difficult and next to
impossible to sell this art in this vast and diverse country. Yet for
the sake of creativity and sustenance of ones soul’s desires, new comers
like us won’t back down. And if a script is good, it would find its way
to take the market by storm at its right time Chanakya Neeti and Shiva
Trilogies being the best trailblazers paving the way for success through
their unconventional ways, thus leaving hope for us new comers.
Bottom line, no matter this Industry is tough, but it is not as
demoralizing as many other dry sectors, where though one can feed their
body, but one can never feed the yearning of their soul.
Check out my books at www.seetarn.in (looking forward to seeing you there)…
Cheers!
Seeta N
www.seetarn.in
Happy Sunday!!!
