The Blockbuster Writer

He woke up one morning with a fierce idea in his mind.
With great ideas came, a host of great questions.
“Will I be able to pull it through?”
“Am I doing something clichéd?”

The questions were bothering him, but he followed his heart religiously,
He wrote the story with conviction, without following any norms.
Happy with the draft he was, he went to a publisher.
“This is my draft!” he said and handed him his story.

“No commercial viability!” he was told by a shrewd face.
Convinced that his idea was unique and fresh,
he went to many others who told him, “This is crap.”
Heart-broken yet determined he self-published his story.

Fifty one copies were sold after fourteen days of its release,
Thirty seven out of these were for friends and family.
Friends were asked to pay, family paid as sympathy,
“Poor little guy, spent three years for this drivel.”

“Enough is enough!” he uttered and devised a cunning plan.
I shall launch this book again but with a marketing blitzkrieg!  
Critical acclaim shall follow and sales will go up soon.
The plan was all set up as the re-launch day was coming.

A week prior to the launch, he sent a notice to a filmmaker.
“Your movie was plagiarized from my highly successful book!”
A never seen before hysteria followed as media covered this story,
‘LOOK AT THIS DIRECTOR WHO STOLE AN IDEA WITHOUT CREDIT!!!’

The unknown book when launched again received an unprecedented sales,
He became the best-selling author before they realized the truth.
Then came another masterstroke when he launched his second book,
he created another controversy, he called someone a crook!

This someone was a reputed businessman who shared his name with his protagonist,
The media went ablaze again, “MR.X IS ACTUALLY A CROOOOK!!!”
The history got repeated, the book was another blockbuster,
This ingenious mastermind soon became a print mafia.

He developed his own fans, he now has a huge fan-club,
Haters have a ‘parody account’ to mock and troll his gimmicks!
Somewhere between all this, a writer became an entrepreneur.
His book are sold like chocolate cakes but he misses the joy of ‘writing.’

The commercial author was once an innocent man with ideas.
The innocence faded away somewhere as commerce won against art.