Hello Abilash, I’m Muralidharan from Chennai. I’ve not written or spoken to you before, but I’ve only been interacting with you on your Facebook posts. I wanted to write to you about two things before I continue. I read your novel ‘You’ve Come to the End of the Story’ last year. It was a hard-hitting novel and a good example of straddling the line between crime and literary fiction. The ending felt very surreal and evocative. I’m re-reading the last segments now, after the Tamil Nadu elections, and in some sense, now the ending feels very realistic. I want to write about it separately. I enrolled in the ‘Outlining for Fiction’ workshop but couldn’t attend for personal reasons. Your beat sheet was interesting – I’ve used similar ones for some screenwriting assignments. It was a relief to know that such things can be used in Lit-fic novels as well. Many novels I read in Tamil are unplotted and because of the lack of structure, it’s difficult to reflect on what was the intention behind wr...