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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