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STORIZEN INDULGE
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AUTHOR'S
JOURNEY
Describing my journey
as a writer is difficult
and easy. Difficult
because I do not know
where to start and
easy because I simply
love talking about it!
But seriously, I have
actually tried hard to
ask myself that
question. I guess I
always had a creative
skew as far as writing
was concerned, since
my schooling days. As
introverted and aloof
as I was, I loved
participating in
Elocutions and
Creative Writing
Contests. I remember
one of my essays in
school exam got
JUNE 2018
I not felt vulnerable and lonely, I
probably would have never started writing.
While I meditated a lot to calm down my
soul, I met myself.
selected to be
published straight
into the school
magazine and it was
one of my proudest
moments. That was
probably where the
seed of the dream to
write was implanted.
But as they say, life
intervened. I got
involved in trying to
shape up a
conventional career
for myself. I did my
Graduation in
Commerce and went
on to do Chartered
Accountancy. I also
acquired a degree in
Law. Somewhere
along the line,
writing
"
fell by the wayside.
But I used to write
sporadically. It started
off as poems and four
liners in Hindi and
English. I loved the
idea of conveying a
thought or an emotion
in just four lines. But
as I said it was
intermittent and
unstructured. But at
the same time, I also
realized I was
completely myself
when words flowed out
of my pen (or as the
case is now - from
mobile phone
touchscreen or
keyboard :-). The idea
of a book and stories
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