Of Stories and incomplete projects.

Ok.

So whats the point of a blog if you do not vent out in it.

Atleast that is what I always used it for.

Until now.

Now, I also use it for doing something Creative.

Like Nehaad, and Rh.

Sadly, both of them have been stuck for some time. And there is a specific reason behind it.

I have been busy.

Very busy.

A lot of things have come up. Both on the professional and personal front, and I hardly have time left to breath now.

That doesn’t mean that I would be Neglecting Nehaad or Rh. The work is happening. The Third, rather the fourth Edition of Nehaad is almost out and the pictures are ready, but I am still working on the Dialogues. Rh., on the other hand, will have to wait for some time. I will come up with the Third part soon. But not before July.

I want the stories to be as comprehensive and spell binding as can be. I don’t want to put in any random BS and pull it off in the end just for the Heck of it.

Meanwhile, I have been reading a lot of random stuff going around in bookstores and landmarks and crossroads across Mumbai. And my trips didn’t disappoint. I laid my hands on the FULL VOLUME OF SINCITY and SANDMAN.

Ah! Paradise.

Going through the pages of Frank Miller’s Drawings with the dark words on it, there came a time when I stopped and ogled at the sketches. They seemed to have been hurried and unedited, but the details into which Frank Miller has gone just to show the raindrops fall on Merve left me Spellbound. I have to accept it, The man is a Genius. I have just managed to complete the volume I of Sincity and I still have 8 more to go. Trust me when I say I am loving every bit of it.

Also, the virtual world has been throwing some gems at me. I have come across some amazing Blogs and Webcomics.

One of the first blogs which caught my eye was Daily Fiction. Written by Aditya (@fubar69 on twitter), this blog is updated every weekday and each day with a different fiction piece. Going through the posts, I realized that the discipline put in to type in the words each day had not effected the quality of work. His stories are amazing and worth reading.

Second comes the uncompromisingly funny and shooting from his heart, KHAMBA (@gkhamba on twitter). Written by Shri Shri G. G Khambeshwar Maharaj, this one is worth a read. For anyone who wanted to say something of the two faced society in which we are living in but always failed to find words for it would find there voice there. Absolutely worth a read.

Moving on to Webcomics:

The first one would be Viral comix’s Subnormality. While XKCD, PhdComics and Abstrusegoose had an audience in the college grads, this would actually has a universal appeal, and to those who enjoy reading, this one would be one of the real good time passes as they say that the game is about words, and not just pictures.

  OGLAF  Now this one will raise quite a few brows, and is really not intended for the non-liberal minded. This is the first time I saw a porno webcomic with a coherent storyline worth reading. The first time I read it, I was flabbergasted. Somebody had actually put in a lot of effort in the whole storyline and worked out a medival age porn saga of a witch queen who had sperms as her spies. Though I was a bit disappointed to find out that the series has been left incomplete. I guess the makers are still figuring out how to end it just like I am doing for Nehaad.

Enough Said.

I am in Pune for a week for a company training program and am taking a break from everything for the time being.

Hope the monsoons here do not disappoint.