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What inspired you to start writing?
So to say, my tryst with writing began with letter-writing to express my youthful feelings in private spheres. Later, it was my urge to articulate my professional ideas that led me into the arena of articles. However, in time, I happened to enter into the ‘novel’ field to examine the human condition, as Jane Austin put it, in a fictional mirror. All this I’ve pictured it in my memoir of an article, My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility, that is Googleable.
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Can you tell us a little about your maiden novel?
Some way into Benign Flame: Saga of Love, having been convinced that I’ve something unique to offer to the literary world through the same, I did not want to die till its completion. In the end, what Spencer Critchley, a Literary Critic, said about it - the plot is quite effective and it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs – made me feel vindicated.
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How do you create your characters?
I happened to provide fictional forms to human proclivities.
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What does your typical writing day look like?
I tended to write twelve to fourteen hours a day, day after day for the most part, with intermittent half-hourly breaks to reset my fatigued mind, till the completion of each of my twelve books, made possible by the absence of my professional obsession.
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What has been the most rewarding part of being an indie author?
As so aptly stated by Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, I derive my true reward through writing itself.
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What’s one challenge you’ve faced in your writing journey?
Getting published, and but for the free ebook stes my body of work would never have seen the literary light.
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Do you have any favorite writing tools or apps?
None at all; while my fiction had emanated from my conviction that for it to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas, all my body of work was borne out of my passion for writing, matched only by his love for language.
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What advice would you give to new or aspiring indie authors?
Wait until writing beckons you to write for good writing is seldome written but gets written.
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How do you handle book promotion as an indie author?
I’ve placed all my twelve books in the public domain as free ebooks and my unceasing endeavour has been to make them available in every website that hosts them for free.
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What’s next for you? Are you working on a new book?
Save an occasional article on provocation or an essay through brainwave, I presume I’ve done with my writing for after all individual creativity too has its plausible limits that I sense I’ve reached with my twelfth book. Besides, with my diminished enthusiam, I'm afraid that I'm in no position to push the literary boundary.
