Sunday, 1 November 2026

Write Concepts: Dispatch From Gutter

I had once the goal of writing one blog post a day, though I do not have that goal now. I write when I feel like writing. A week or two ago I had decided that I would only write prose poems and gonzo but they require creative juices which are hard to come by. I think it's better to write blog posts, and within them my experiences, though it's not necessary to write daily. What else I can write, and I ponder on this once in a while. Within genres I have noir, weird fiction, cosmic horror, science fiction, fantasy, whimsical fantasy, mythofiction and superhero. For people low on serotonin reality can become unbearable and that's when they start seeking dopamine. I can expand on the genres and can experiment with nonfiction I can write flash nonfiction that I generally write or narrative nonfiction infusing them with my favourite genres while keeping the truth and facts accurate. I still write fiction and post it on my fiction blog but this blog is mostly for blog posts, prose poems, gonzo and other nonfiction. In 2015 I had started with such a project, in which I narrated my life with the voice and personality of Batman or Deadpool. Later I started documenting my life in noir voice and that project was named as Noir Memoir. In the past decade I ended up realising that India as a nation doesn't really exist except on paper and what exists is a failed state with multilevel decentralised pockets of, if we are talking North India and I don't know about South India, mafia dictatorships which are centralised at the top with its criminal enforcers culling and murdering talent as soon as they see it as it would threaten the state of slavery and consequently the mafia dictatorship which is unfortunately so invasive that it threatens and in most cases engulfs the autonomy. I started writing in late 2000s and early 2010s and I continue to write no matter what. It helps me unwind and it's the only art that enjoy practicing, plus the situation of this nation is so terrible in the lower two-thirds of the iceberg this nation is, due to mindless and rapey impunity, that I had to write the diagnosis of people's suffering so that they don't blame themselves for their suffering and victim blaming and especially in places like Purvanchal is one of the chief instruments used for oppression. I thought this is the least that I can do. I wanted to write imaginative and beautiful things. About the universe, about magic, about fantastical things, space voyages and science fiction and superhero stuff but I ended up realising that universe and such things are foreclosed for the majority especially once the delusions are shed. Still if one can imagine they must try to. 

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