blazeofglory

I am a budding writer. I took a new decision to write in English. I am of course an avid reader. I was grown up in a different circumstance, of course un-english. I had a good background in Nepali and a good amount of the knowledge of Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali literature.

Of course now considering wider or global readership through English I switched to writing in English. Now I read a variety of books in English and repertoires of subjects like philosophies, poetries, novels. With regard to style I found James Joyce as the most appealing one, and particularly, Ulysses. Of course it is a very hard book and I started it several times, and each time I get compelled to look up the dictionary for words. Yet it magnetizes my mind, for his style is very rich in style, and something formidably deepening.

Of course he is my Guru. I do not understand him and yet he is worthy of reading. For those who want to hone their styles he is indeed unbeatable. He wrote in defiance of tradition and did not succumb to any particular rules or formalities. He worked painstakingly yet he got no applause or appreciation in his life time.

Indeed if you want to mine gold or treasures of course you have to plumb depths and profundities and naturally you will get vast repositories of inspirations.

Of course when I write I want to present things differently; in point of fact I need a good style, a skill to present things so that readers may find them entertaining and at the same time revealing.

I am not going public now, for I have to emerge colossally and of course revealingly, something that dazzles and outshines the rest.

Now there is vacuum and indeed this is a transitory period as regards literary progression . Of course there is an air of recession, and people are geared to other mediums of entertainments-TV, cinemas and serials.

And of course there is friction between spirituality and materiality. Something that synchronizes these juxtaposing or polar opposites. Honestly, no one is fully materialistically oriented nor spiritually directed and everyone, deep down characterizes both states at the same time. We all are in flux and things will not remain the same after a certain time.

ClancyBoy

"magnetizes my mind." I like that.

I have to say, I think the way you organize your thoughts is pretty unique already. Can't wait to see what your prose looks like.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

CaptainFreedom

I think you have a paper clip stuck to your forehead. - har har

I have to write in a second language all the time for work, and I'm sure you've already figured out that it's no picnic. Getting your meaning across is a long way from passing yourself off as a native. You might want to think about trying to look to someone more contemporary for inspiration though. Ulysses is pretty archaic, and nobody writes like that anymore.

If you haven't already read one, Dean Koonz is my favorite author. I liked his books before I started to write myself, and now that I've been analyzing them a little closer, I see that he is also one of the best authors out there technically. I think he has a set of rules that he never breaks - not ever. That's what makes his books have such a distinctive style, and the stories are all pretty original. There are a couple of dumb ones, but I would say 4 out of 5 are really good.

CF