The blooding of budding authors

Doing anything the first time is always the most difficult. Hesitation haunts you. Uncertainty irks you. Dithering disturbs you. However, once a beginnng is made, its momentum takes you much beyond what you had bargained for. And when you look back, you begin to wonder whether, it was really you, who did all this.

This is pretty much that happened with us too - with my daughter Madhuri and me. We wanted to write a novel, having never done it earlier, and before we knew it, we had done it! This was in December 2007. The theme of the novel was the story of the film "Lagaan", as we saw it, where characters had backgrounds much beyond what the film had to portray and many new characters included as well. Our hero was not Bhuvan - the film's hero, but Kachra the untouchable of the village.

We wish to share this story with you - a chapter a week and trust that you enjoy it.

You can read our story at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/word-wonderworld/web/a-surge-of-time---chapter-1?hl=en (also available under ram links as "A surge of time"). Please do let us know what you think about our style of writing, the effect of our subtle alteration of the theme, and also whether the narration appears seamless, considering the fact that two persons have authored it.

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