I have been reading some blogs lately. Havent done any writing in a long while. And those blog have really enthused me up into logging back into my account and try to pen down something.

So, I have rolled up my sleeves, rubbed my palms and am wondering where to start. Its kind of a letdown. Here I am, after all these months, trying to say something and I am out of words.

I think writing is a habit. And I am dreadfully lacking in that habit right now. And I do want to write something. Nice problem you can say. Wait till you have it.

Okay lets start with some details about my self. Am a geek at heart. Love technology and things associated. Have some sort of obsessive compulsive thing about reading. I like science fiction but find it hard to accept. Always try to improve my literary taste from science fiction to classics. Can manage it some times but there is only so much of heart of darkness that I can bear, wanna return to the imaginative world of science fiction or light comic reading sooner than later.

I think science fictions are highly underrated. I have this theory. We read anything cause it allows us to imagine. Imagine not what the author has written but what the author would not have written and WE would have written. Take anyone who reviews any book. If the guy thinks the book is good, he will analyze and try to ascribe motives to the writer, trying to show layers of meanings, the provocativeness of imagination and the uniqueness of view points that the writer has poured forth. What the guy is really doing is trying to show what layers, provocations, and uniqueness that guy wants to show in his writings.

People write when they have some basic idea, they think about it, improvise on it, it seems beautiful to them and meaningful enough to write. But the reviewer hasnt been able to think of that till the book came out and now while reading he is trying to improvise the basic idea, at least think of how he would have improvised it and writes down the difference between the improvisations. This happens with readers too. Readers also create their own personal improvisations of the idea and the better this creation process is for them, the more they like the book. If you are unable to identify with the core idea or if you are unable to improvise on the idea, you dont enjoy the book.

How does all this connect with my point about science fiction being underrated? Well science fiction in set in a completely different world. Reviewer and readers have to imagine a completely different world, an entirely new existance which is a very difficult thing to do. The "personal-way-of-creation" does not happen that satisfactorily and they are left with some sort of restlessness.

There that was enough of spouting for a day.

And a word of warning, whatever is written above is just what came into my head one late night. It does not have to be right. I think there must be some problems with that arguement above. So dont take it seriously, if you do thats your problem. Afterall its my blog.

abhishek