The best-laid plans

Finally, the first draft is complete. now starts the harder part where I have to wear the editing hat and be critical of the work that was done by the creator-me before I start querying. Not easy, but has to be done. But, this post is not about that.

This post is about the best-laid plans, the ones that we all have before starting any project. The more I got interested in the history of Bharat, the more I read about it. The more I read about it, the more I was convinced that the history taught to us was partial. I had to go to the primary sources to get to some degree of truth, and as I read about Shambhuji Maharaj, the son of Chatrapati Shivaji, I posed a question to myself and the answer to that is the story of this novel.

As a writer, I always work on one-line situations. What if ‘x’ happens? I have a fairly good idea of the answer when I begin writing and researching. Those are the best-laid plans. But, then we all know what happens to the best-laid plans, don’t we?

When I started to write, the characters started to fight me, they had an idea of their own destiny and did not want to follow my directions. As I completed the final scene, the notion that I had started with changed substantially. The same thing had happened to me when I wrote my first novel, “Flash Point” too.

Okay, that is it. Keep making the plans, but have an open mind to accept the situations as they come since the universe does not really care for your plans.

PS: the teddy in the background was given by a colleague and she keeps staring at me when I work. Sometimes, I do talk to her.

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