Struggle of an Author

By Md Shoriful Islam
The cursor blinked, a tiny, relentless metronome counting down the seconds of Elias’s dwindling patience. He needed one simple fact for his historical thriller: the exact tensile strength of a specific type of silk rope used by Venetian gondoliers in 1750.



He started with a precise search query. The results were a digital swamp. The first page offered a Wikipedia article on the history of silk, a link to a modern-day rope manufacturer, and three irrelevant blog posts about "Venice's Most Romantic Gondola Rides."

He refined his search, adding "tensile strength" and "18th century." Now, the results were worse. He was hit with a paywall for an academic paper on the economic impact of the silk trade, a broken link to a university library archive, and a forum thread from 2008 where two users debated the merits of hemp versus cotton, with no mention of silk.

Elias clicked on the academic paper, only to be met with a $49.99 fee. He sighed, the sound a dry rasp in the quiet room. He tried a different angle: "gondola rope material 1750." This led him to a digitized book with no search function, forcing him to scroll through hundreds of pages of dense, archaic text. After twenty minutes, he found a single sentence mentioning "finely spun cordage," which was useless.

His initial ten-minute research task had ballooned into a two-hour digital scavenger hunt. The story he was supposed to be writing—the thrilling escape of his protagonist—was fading into the background, replaced by the burning frustration of the search. He slumped back in his chair, staring at the screen, a vast ocean of information that refused to yield the single, tiny drop he desperately needed. 

The internet, the supposed repository of all human knowledge, felt less like a library and more like a labyrinth designed by a mischievous god. He just needed the fact, the anchor for his scene, but the digital world was drowning him in noise

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