Writing is often addictive, fun, hilarious, thereupatic and compulsory challenge that is a frustrating, hairsplitting, nervewracking, soul-stripping, enobling, enlightening, narcisstic, demanding ...

Writing regularly, more so!

Ask any person who has sometime written something in her life about it. What the reader may sometimes dismiss as simple, requires oftentimes immense struggle on the author's part. The storywriter will do everything possible, cook up all excuses not to write. The journey from anywhere to the writing desk is the longest and the toughest. But once there, nothing else matters. It is an all consuming passion, a religion that devours her, a thrilling adventure.

Oh perseverance! Thy end is a piece of literature.:)

When busy professionals who juggle back to back shifts round the clock, sqeeze sleep out of their eyes, write regularly for the sheer joy of writing. Ah! it's bliss, at least when she has a book in her hand.

Read the Outlook article on The Story Till Now in

I have a friend who is similarly qualified. (what was that? Did i just say similarly?:) Oh Well, Coming back, except for the carnatic music bit, which I am not sure, its all the exact same.

Same Age, Same city, Same Profession.

Chemical Engineer goes to Managment school and then turns banker. Writes a lot, (um yeah, though sporadicaly) especially short stories and hopes to metamorphise into an author soon.

BTW, I have already booked the first interview, if you must know. Now, it just a matter of time till agent David Godwin flies in to your city. Even though, it is right now floating on a riverload of water.:)

Meanwhile Ready that manuscript, cause You, my friend are the next Litstar on the horizon.

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