Storizen Magazine August 2018 Issue | Chiranjiv Patel VI | Page 55

STORIZEN   INTERVIEW
I expect the world
from Anon. I have
very big dreams for
it. It doesn’t come
from a place of over
confidence. It is just
something I know
and feel. I believe,
like my book does,
that it has a destiny
that is independent
and all its own.
As for the process,
the writing was the
easiest part. I
finished it in two
months. But
following that, I was
utterly lost. I didn’t
know how the world
of publishing
operated. I didn’t
know whom to
reach out to, how to
get my manuscript
read by the right
people. I’m also not
a very pushy
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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
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strongly believed in
it, my editor
PoojaDadwal was
magical to work
with and within a
year and a half of
my first interaction
with Mita, my book
has been out on the
stands.
Writing a book is
probably the most
purest form of
writing for me. It is
unadulterated by
any factor of
commerce,
untarnished by any
other thought or
consideration but
the need and desire
to tell a story, I can
follow my process
as purely as I wish
to and what I write
is completely my
voice.
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