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Publication: The Times Of IndiaMumbai; Date: Nov 1, 2009; Section: Times City; Page: 4


PEN DRIVE

On your marks, get set, write!

An unusual word race saw aspiring authors competing with one another to reach the winning post

Mahafreed Irani | TNN



    Saturday marked the end of the national novel-writing race; Sunday the start of the international NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Both online creative writing crusades help participants battle writers’ block and fight compulsive slacking to finish a novel within a set period of time.

    The writing challenge in India called Novel Race was started in June this year to call aspiring novelists to pen screenplays, plays, graphic novels, non-fiction or fiction that exceeded 60,000 before October 31. Based on the idea that the threat of a deadline and competitors racing ahead was enough to turn a writer into a novelist, the Novel Race used networking sites to spread the word. It all began when writer Samit Basu called for a word count race, soon after which an online community was formed and anybody writing a novel could compete in a race to finish their novel first. IT professionals, journalists, housewives, college students and writers from India and countries like UAE, United States, Australia and the Netherlands are participating. As many as 11 writers, of the 50-odd participants, have finished writing their novels and ‘won’.

    “The motive was simple enough:

to tell each other ‘Write, bugger, write’. And perhaps to point and laugh when you’re ahead,’’ writes Aditya Bidikar on the Facebook group of Novel Race participants. On the website novelrace.in, the slogan says, “It is not about word count or beating everyone else, except that it actually is.” Participants use the forum to post their last word count on a regular basis. A timeline graph lets them track their progress. A translator by profession, Bidikar who attempted his first novel at 16, lost. “I managed to finish writing only 23,000 words of fantasy fiction.”

    Besides being a pacing exercise, the group is also used as a place for first-time novelists to discuss literary elements like the development of the plot, characters and climax, and tips on how to get published. It makes the lonely task of writing exciting. Questions like, ‘Is it possible to write an intricately plotted book sporadically?’ and ‘Is tone and tenor something you actively strive to achieve or is it something that emerges by itself from your writing subconsciously, something that only a reader can identify?’ are some of the questions that have been discussed. When one writer asked if quality was compromised in the haste to put up a word count, Mumbai-based Angad Chowdhry who finished the race twice, wrote, “Writing is not about the finished book but the act of writing itself. The sore thumbs, manic bouts of scribbling, images that have to be jammed into Page 18 not because they are real or authentic or appropriate but just because it makes me ill to even think of them.’’

B l o g g e r R a mya Pa n dya n , who is better known as Idea-smithy in cyberspace, is writing a novel set in Mumbai that revolves around “relationships after the advent of internet and connectivity’’. She completed 50,727 words on Friday. For her the race has been a learning experience. “I interacted with other writers, shared the anxieties a writer faces and learnt about the latest writing software available,’’ says the writer who is halfway through her novel.

    Dubai-based Vishal Bharadwaj says the race helped him get back to writing fiction after a long dry spell. “The book I started writing was a generic fantasy novel featuring sexy warrior elves, dragons and evil magicians,’’ says the writing addict who posts regular word count updates on Twitter and has completed 35,000 words of the novel. The next Novel Race is set to take place in 2010.

    Most of the Novel Race participants, even those who lost, are also participating in N a N o Wr i M o which starts on November 1 and ends on November 30.



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