Hurt as it might, 'm tryin' hard to resist any wordplay on Mysore..

Hey, how y'all? Doin' alright? I most definitely double darn well do hope so.

Greeting y'all sinners from relaxed Mysore, old capital of the Wodeyar empire (we're still in Karnataka, just so you know) and renowned throughout India for its historical legacy of good government - trust me: a rare commodity in India. The place also boasts a big fekkin' whopper of a palace and, lemme tell ya, it truly is h-h-huuuge!!! Haven't even had the time to visit yet, so that's just my impression of standing outside the gates looking in.

This is already my third night in Mysore and by the look of it i might even stay here another day or two longer.. Yup, yup. For i finally found (excuse the convoluted style ;=) what i was sorta lacking in Hampi and Gokarna: quiet places to comfortably put my feet up, go through my notebooks, let my mind wander and jot down some old and - hopefully - mostly new ideas.

Amazing thing, one's imagination. On the bus from Mangalore to Mysore looking outta the window to the hilly countryside with its tropical vegetation i came up with the basis of a children's book. And i've been elaborating on it simply by going through my notebooks, dreaming off and putting down to paper whatever interesting ideas pass through me. Great fun that! If i can ever make a living outta this i'll be one happily dreamin' kid!

(Just to get things straight, this is of course the most fun part of writing: as long as the ideas keep a-coming - there's the rub! - and you needn't yet worry how you're gonna put together, i.e. write the whole damned thing. In this stage, the sky is the limit. If you can make it up it has a right to exist. - See: "There's nothing you can make that can't be made", The Beatles, All You Need Is Love. - And the fun part of imagining things is, if you've been at it long enough - remember childhood? - you really needn't do much whatsoever, just time to loaf about and keep your ol' noggin open to whatever stuff might manifest itself in your daydreaming. Perhaps you might have to ask yourself the occasional 'What if.. ?' to further explore some or other concept. But apart from that there really isn't much you can do to force inspiration from flowing.
Except by, in my case that is, stimulating my associative powers by applying myself through studying (the workings/inner logic of) any type of interesting subject. Or by just going out and stealing ideas from the most diverse possible sources. The better you are at hiding your sources, which generally translates as the wilder your associations, the greater your creativity.
Erm.. In case you were wondering/in any way interested, now you've got some idea what i've been doing apparently wasting my time, days, weeks and months on end... Setting myself up for a good ol' batch of daydreaming. That's right!)

For now, lemme say i'm quite enthralled by the main character. She's got gusto. One screwy kid. And a minor to boot! :) I'll need to put together quite a bit more stuff to flesh out the story, but i hope to put a first excerpt online in some weeks time..

OK. Okay, enough for today. Amazing how each time i set out to finally pick up where i left off back in Varanasi. De nouveau.. La prochaine fois? I'm not doing it on purpose, trust me.

Loadsa 'if-my-imagination-were-a-squirrel-you-could-be-in-my-nutsy-worl' luv,
-hx.