My Project brainstorming

I'm at the computer lab of Potter Library of Ramapo College of New Jersey. The days are flying in supersonic pace. I fear I may be left behind.

About the book that I've formally undertaken to write and publish as a project of First Year Seminar  "Idea Lab: Affecting Change" class, I am understanding today that it better be a single story instead of collection of stories. Well, I must cover at least two major events: the earthquake experience and falling of the US marine helicopter. I may also connect the story to Everest avalanche and Langtang destruction. I can connect the issues of human trafficking and sexual abuse during the weeks under tent at the wake of the earthquake (and the aftershocks). The backdrop is the reality, a truth but I can't claim to write an absolutely factual story or stories. I must fictionalize a lot of things to make my book (1) interesting to read (2) and woven in a single thread of happenings.

Various writers have done so. Rakesh Wadhwa's THE DEAL MAKER is a complete fiction but it is written on the backdrop of real Indian socio-politics. It sounds real. Chetan Bhagat's depiction of Ahmedabad earthquake in his novel "Three Mistakes of My Life" is another example. I should also exploit this extraordinary opportunity to create a grand fiction surrounding the recent events in Nepal. It will have several advantages: (1) I don't need to validate the things that I write on the book, which a non-fictional work must do (2) I will have more readers  (3) I can connect the extraordinary events of Nepal into a single thread of story (4) I will end with more creative work of art, thereby receiving higher credits for the book.

I've put on hold other projects ( THE VIRGIN, THE QUEST OF ENLIGHTENMENT, THE BAD MASTER AND THE THIRD WORLD WAR, THE MEMOIR OF A MANIAC) to undertake this new project. I must make this book THE SHAKEN EARTH AND THE FALLEN MARINE a defining step of my writing career.

What about connecting the Maoist Insurgency and Royal Massacre of 2001 also in my fictional story? It'll be such an amusing book of history! Indeed. Of course I need a truly amazing fictional plot to connect all these events....but I understand it'll be worth it.

God, the idea of seriously and practically undertaking this book writing project has spurred and revived a series of other book ideas in my mind: what about the fiction I thought months ago on the life of so-called Don Chari and his lover Khusbu Oli? There can be such a spectacular book to read. I really stand at the point of rocking the world by my books. A lot is happening.

And this FYS project has really inspired me to take writing on my daily life: on my routine. I better integrate writing in every day of my present life if I want to pursue it on the present and yield great results very soon. Being a non-native English writer is not as big a problem as not practicing.
Developing ideas every day bit by bit and honing writing skill bit by bit every day is very important.

I've very thankful and grateful to professor Jennifer Szabo for her approval, support and encouragement towards this.
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