My maiden 'Novel' blues

By Murthy, BS

Book Id: WPLBN0100750306
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Reproduction Date: 9/4/2024

Title:	My maiden 'Novel' blues
Author:	Murthy, BS
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Maiden novel, Fiction writing, Creative writing, Literary works, Writer's tale, Self-publishing, Indian Writing in English, Author Memoir, Novel writing, Indian writers, Writing blues, The muse
Collections:	Authors Community, Biographies
Historic Publication Date:	2024
Publisher:	Self Imprint

Member Page:	BS Murthy
Citation APA MLA Chicago Murthy, B. (2024). My maiden 'Novel' blues. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Who said the novel is dead; 'Benign Flame' raises the bar as vouched for by one Spencer Critchley, an American Literary Critic thus: The plot is quite effective and it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs.

Summary
After letting me pen over a score of articles, though my muse prompted me to enter into the arena of fiction, yet it made me struggle to come up with the opening lines of my maiden novel for over ten days or so before “That winter night in the mid-seventies, the Janata Express was racing rhythmically on its tracks towards the coast of Andhra Pradesh. As its headlight pierced the darkness of the fertile plains, the driver honked the horn as though to awake the sleepy environs to the spectacle of the speeding train."

Excerpt
But what a poetic justice it was that the publishers’ apathy, for my literary foray into an uncharted fictional arena, pushed me into Roopa’s despondent shoes, leg for leg! So to say, to atone for myself, and to earn for her the empathy, at least, of a few discerning readers, I self-published it, in which some have found freshness - “it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs” – for, after all, Raja Rao famously goads the deviant Roopa to love Sathyam too to make him happy.