Short and Sweet
Short stories of fiction are beautiful. I find them better than novels. Novels twist and turn or drag and drone. Short stories are simple. Then constitute of a simple line of thought, often about simple feelings or people and places and pets and petals. They are about everyday life; talking of houses and relations and trees and cities. Hence I decided that the novel I write would consist of short stories. They would be stand alone short stories interwoven to constitute a novel.
All I need now is an underlying theme.
City?
Road?
River?
Monument?
Animal/Bird?
House?
Journey?
Beach?
CCD?
Class?
Read 'Between the Assassins' by Adiga - it is a collection of short-stories. Each story can be read as a separate story. But at the same time, characters often repeat because everyone is in the same village (the underlying theme being a small village / town and its people).
ReplyDeleteMonument could be a good theme - you can actually sell the idea to some state tourism department and get funding for publishing the book.
@Amrit
ReplyDeleteAre you sure I should read it? A lot of people advised me against Adiga's books.
About funding. let's get it started first :P (I run out of patience very quickly)
I would second Amrit on that.. Adiga's buk is a nice read and wld lend u some ideas on urs..
ReplyDeleteMy suggestion for theme wld be - friends..