Ohk so now that I have written my book and it is published, what next??

The book has been out for almost two weeks now and still a very normal response and I thought it will become a boom as soon as it will be out. It will become my key to the flashy lifestyle but things aren't going as expected till now.

So what do I do?

Here I'm blogging myself out. After suggestions from a lot of people I finally decided to come here on BlogSpot and luckily I managed to get a good domain. *wink.

"A Short Affair Called Life" that’s my book, was out on all web portals two weeks ago and has done reasonably normal for a book. All those 200 copies sold includes majority of my friends and their friends.

So why must one buy my book. A perfect question, why someone would invest 145 Rs in a book, when today spending money on books is the last thought in our young and "Awara" generation’s (Off-course like me) mind.

Here is the thing, from past one and a half year I m living in a oblivion trying to figure out how is my life going to be. It has affected me and the major part of the novel I finished under its effect.

"How is my life going to be from here??”

I couldn't just imagine myself working for the rest of my life. Waking up every day, getting ready, going to work and then coming back home, watching TV and finally landing up in bed. The idea of doing this every day kind of freaked me out.

Thereafter I started thinking about other aspects of Life,

"What is Love??”
Trying to get over from the recently ended relationship, this question kept coming to me almost every night, lying in my bed I thought of it. I lay down on my bed with my mind reckoning every move i have made and what it has bought me. "Where was the love?" I tried figuring out. Can a girl/Boy simply change our definition of Love? What about our parent's love, siblings and friends?
The mind boggling thinking process lead to another thing,

"What is Friendship??”
Now this was something I was rich in, I m proud of my friends. But than what about those who have betrayed me and the one I have betrayed. This was much more agitating than questioning Love. Friends are some people you can't just afford to lose or betray.

It was just than the whole plot of my book was there in small head of mine. Still I needed to fix it with the story, no one would read a book if you are just putting up questions and answering them. I wanted sales; I really want to be the next Bhagat (The dreams of flashy lifestyle are very much alive).

So now Darsh's journey has a purpose (Darsh my protagonist), he had to find answers to these question.
But then what all are the questions. It wasn't really a difficult task to find out. We all youngsters think almost the same thing; we have almost the same issues. For some they are real big and for some they can be easily tackled.

So now that random dream of just writing a book and becoming the paparazzi class was actually taken over by the idea of becoming an author (I guess it was than I thought I will be a better writer than all of the IIT, IIM, Love story, Random sex and Drug Mafia Writers.) Off course it has to have these things as well but then these can’t be the whole story.

The things what fascinates most of the youngsters is travelling, so that has to be the medium that will bind the whole story, now when that's set the next thing i had to to is to make the story travel to such places that will answer all the question.
"What is pain/misery?"
"What is religion?”
"What is pleasure?”
"What is family?”

So that is what book has to offer, it takes you places and tries to attempt all those question that are there in your mind.
If it doesn't answer your question, you can simply ask me.