Since I find myself the designated driver and back bench to formally archive this monumental event, here goes.
A Desi Writers' meet, my first has made two things, among many, many others... 'much' clear. The first is that as opposed to the usual; here we know the people behind the faces. It is the faces that are new. I guess I've seldom found myself more nervous, than meeting people who actually knew how ...(hmm how to say this politely, so as not to offend my conscience) 'odd' i was capable of being. The character had already been put to canvas, and you had seen it. 'Twas scary, but eerily satisfying, to not have to act proper (trust me i CAN do that, when required).
And second, I truly have realised the power of words. Even if they are sheer 'brain farts', because they open doors to people easier on pixel than in person. To carry off on what Mrs Cluck, said to the 'he who we shall not name' I can see why this is a cyber family, in much more concrete terms than most live ones.Everything we feel, and think comes out on this forum. The truly personal, the perverse, the primeval and the profound.
In many ways this community is a book being written onto itself, we are the characters and our posts are the dialogue. Think about it, if we do take up thunder thief's quest and archive all the pieces here by author, it shows a stream of thought and a growth as writers, that couldnt really have materialised otherwise. I guarentee it would be the best book most of us have read, purely because both the crap and the crux are honest.
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