STORIZEN INTERVIEW design and enjoy interiors and love spaces . But after a couple of hours of discussions with the team , I had nothing much to do . Time hung heavy and I realized that if I didn ’ t write , I would go crazy . My boyfriend said , ‘ Why don ’ t you write a book ?’ It seemed like a wonderful idea and I immediately took to it . I knew that I had to set the book in a world that I knew because I did not wish to spend much time on research . The world of writing wasthe ideal ecosystem .
The story – about two writers who become friends who end up standing on two opposing sides of an ideological standpoint – formed as I wrote on . At the outset , I didn ’ t know where it would go or how it would end . I hate that , knowing where I ’ m going with my writing . It ’ s always delightful and despairing and devastating and euphoric , all in equal measures , when you set off on an unknown journey . But I would do it every single time – I would travel that path , stumble and fall and rise for the utter ecstasy of that one moment when it all falls together , like the most intricate and delicate labyrinth that is formed only
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
because you trusted the process .
As for my inspiration , for Anon ., it was my own experiences , my own struggles , conflicts and passion for my art that painted the world I was creating .
Share the glimpse of your journey from Bengaluru to Bollywood . Was it a cakewalk ?
I don ’ t think life is ever a cakewalk for anyone . We all have to pay our dues , however privileged we are or however easy things seem to come to anyone .
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