55er – Desperate Blogger
Arpit was going crazy. He hadnt posted in weeks. He spent the entire day thinking about the next post. The outline was ready.
“This will be the best post ever. As soon as i get home…”
He got home at 10. Exhaustion took over and soon he was snoring.
The blog would have to wait.
Author’s note: My first attempt at writing a short story in the space of 55 words; popularly known as 55ers. It’s pretty hard, as i were to realize over the course of composing this one. Hope you like.
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
nice attempt! I too have started writing these recently after several days of low confidence.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
gauri
December 16th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Good one.
December 16th, 2009 at 5:48 am
eeps! 55 words doesn’t provide too much scope does it! Nice one though…lol at gauri’s observation!!
December 16th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Like ? It was almost like me speaking !!
Good start !!
December 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Cool!
Twitter and now 55ers…First time and now words are being put limits too!….what next
December 16th, 2009 at 11:06 am
December 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
So true and so authentic.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Somehow my heart goes out to it. Feels as if you are writing about yourself. Are you?
December 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
nice… 55er is catching up it seems
December 17th, 2009 at 10:20 am
A man of many talents!
Cheers,
Quirky Indian
December 18th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Hahaha, oh my god, that sounds like me! Except that I can’t imagine writing anything in 55 words! Good going..
P.S. The fob is back
December 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Nice and pretty smart one…
I am planning to try one…but everytime i do, i end up in a story bigger than a post:)
December 18th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Nice effort! 55er are going around like fire these days
December 19th, 2009 at 6:58 am
@Reema – Thanks!
@Gauri – Thanks. As if you had any doubts that i could not be good at something!
@mesingh – Thanks!
@Roshni – Thanks. NO! 55 words provides no scope. My first draft was some 80 odd words. From there i worked to get it down to 55.
@Kavi – Thanks! It was like you speaking? You have been managing regular posts on your blog fairly well! You write faster than i can read!
@amlistening – It is all part of the effort to reduce global warming. With my typing speed, i often see smoke coming out of the keyboard after 5 minutes of typing. The shorter the posts, the lesser i type, the lesser smoke produced, the lesser the impact of global warming.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:08 am
@Shail –
@Dev – Celeb in the house! Thanks for the appreciation, best personal indiblog(ger)!
@Poonam – Aww come on… you think i have such a rotten existence!? You are right!
@DesiNinja – Thanks!
@QI – “A man of many talents” Who, me?
@Puneet – Thanks!
@Ekta Khetan – Thanks! I think you should keep (trying to) write these 55ers. That way you will end up with enough stories to publish your own book!
@Kiran – Thanks. Stories going around like fire? Helps in the winter!
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 am
If your blog were loved by someone, whatever contents you write in your blog will be definitely loved by your readers. Your blog fans like me will visit your website often even though there is no new contents. But its worth posting something than rather not updating your blog. If you are not updating a blog, your fans will think your blog is dead and thereby their tendency of revisiting your blog will die soon. I know that you know about this better than me since you are a well experienced blogger. I just want your fans too be aware about this if they too doing blogging.
Few months my website was dead since i changed the contents to another website and later i made a blog. Again the visitors count start growing daily. But the blog was dying slowly since i was very lazy in posting stuffs, but in between i was hardly working to redesign my blog. I have created so many adaptation for search engines and designed a fresh look. But the real fact is that my visitors don’t know about these and start ignoring my blog. Even though they were not knowing that old stuffs has been shifted to new website. Also i forget to make some necessary modification in webmasters central of Google to let them know that my website has been shifted. I feel very sad when i saw that my website visitors has been dropped from 1000+/day to 100+/day. So i recommend all of you to keep on updating your blog and do necessary steps if you are doing any hard-time maintenance in your blog. Thank you !
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
here’s one:
“the cabbage fell on the floor, narrowly missing the table. it is soiled now, unfit for consumption. it was the last one. i stare at the total waste and reach for the tomato. it glistens in my hand. one swift stroke of the knife, it rests divided on shredded lettuce bed, shrivelling under vinegar rain.”
enjoy.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
@AD: Yes, you!
December 25th, 2009 at 1:24 am
thats a good attempt AD
ask me who is pathetic at these 55ers 
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!:)
December 28th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
One of the best 55er I’ve read.. i guess it will touch many a sore strings !!
Growing Indian traffic with a lack of infra has a way of doing this to u !!!
Liked ur earlier post regarding Returning To India !!
Hope u r well settled by now and rocking.
Happy Holidays ..
December 29th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Something new.
Have not heard 55ers, is it a desi thing?
More familiar with 550ers
December 29th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
wish i could be this good …
January 5th, 2010 at 12:29 am
@ms – That’s genius. Its like a scene out of that horrible movie called Sin City!
@QI – Aww, Quirky! You are awesome.
@Indyeah – Thanks! Happy new year to you too!
@RDB – Welcome back…long time no see! Thanks for the wishes, and thanks for the appreciation! Hope you too had a good time this holiday season.
As for being well settled – i am so settled now it’s like i never left India!
@TIA – Not sure about the desi factor. I’d say it is a blogging thing!
@Bikram – Now come on…dont be so modest!