Originality comes into play, when one’s mind asks a question in the midway of a thought…………. “Whether this is possible.”
I think 90% of the books published in the world should not be written at all .Why? Because they write out of compulsion, they offer to the reader nothing but environmental disaster of wasting our precious trees! I know the daggers will be out, but what about the content potential?
Going still deeper, some of the best sellers are boring to read. You have to just look at the classics……..The Bible, The Ten Commandments, Dr. Zivago, Ulysses, Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra, Where Eagles Dare, Charlie Chaplin, Mother India, Malgudi Days, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Marx Bros., Gone With The Wind,…………these books are full of inspiration, awe, entertaining, morals……..a book you want to hold to your heart forever! The Bible is the highest selling book in the world; it has sold more than 15 billion copies worldwide. The Ten Commandments is another gripping book on the life of Jesus Christ; it is the most popular book in the world.
I know everyone who writes will consider me a villain, who has come to spoil their party; but I don’t carry any such thought. I only want to encourage them to come out of their closet with something original in content for the readers to enjoy. I know this is difficult for many writers, but I can give them a start. Let their ideas run wild, mad, illogical, but from there the writer can built up the essay, prose, fiction or even poetry.
Another trait in a compulsive writer is to write long and thick. They will empty the ink in their pens up to the last drop and then fill up a number of times, writing, writing and writing. But the taste of the pudding will be in the last few pages of the book. And, when the writer does finish writing the entire book, he will congratulate himself on achieving a milestone. Whew!
Novels can be an interesting read, when they have something new to offer to the readers. Let their content be their real experience, observation or a news items. And, mind you, it is not the complete novel that is important………but each and every page of a novel must be exciting and eager to be looked forward to by the readers. Many writers write hundreds of pages of a novel, but not concentrating on the title. They fill up the pages with useless conversations, extensions of no consequence, reflecting the general apathy of the writer. These type of writers make the last few pages very interesting; but by that time, the reader is exhausted and bored to death! Hence their novel can never be a bestseller. A bestseller novel is power packed from page one to page last. It is loaded with exciting feeds like an original story, fantastic locales, mind blowing characters and meaty interesting conversations, that will ring true. This type of novel must engage the reader immediately from the opening page itself. Once the reader picks up the novel, he should be hooked to it, should not like to put it down, but rather finish it in one go!
That’s about Best Sellers !
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