{"id":474,"date":"2003-05-09T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/474"},"modified":"2003-05-09T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T18:42:00","slug":"474","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/474\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The moving finger writes…*<\/h3>\n

I received a few fan mails \ud83d\ude09 on my first novel<\/a>. Now, I know that I am not a great writer. I do not have the literary ammunition nor a stunning vocabulary. I love telling stories. That’s my only strength. And I love to write. I wrote this novel<\/a> in 1999. It was a labour of love and being a fool that I am I sent it to Penguin books and was rejected. I tried to approach so many other publishers. None responded. No, it didn’t disappoint me and dissolve my faith. I just went ahead and created a website for my novel. And I keep getting e-mail every now and then. People from all over India. People that I have never seen. But the recent mail from one particular reader moved me. She made me realise that I had given up on my novel<\/a>, instead of keeping at it and get it published.
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Many Thanks to those kind souls who are sensitive enough to send a good thought, and a word of encouragement. The penguins of the publishing industry can go to hell. It is you that’s going to buy my book when I am published tomorrow. That counts. That’s swell!
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*The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
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— Omar Khayyam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The moving finger writes…* I received a few fan mails \ud83d\ude09 on my first novel. Now, I know that I am not a great writer. I do not have the literary ammunition nor a stunning vocabulary. I love telling stories. That’s my only strength. And I love to write. I wrote this novel in 1999. 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