It has been almost 4 months since my book - my creation came into existence. This has been a really new experience for me, since being just 20, I've been blessed not only to realize the thing that I loved to do the most(writing!) but also, take a big step of going a step beyond just writing for pleasure, to writing to entertain others. Here, I present some of the realizations that are born out of my experience as an author:
1. The real friends show enormous faith in you! They are the ones who share your happiness.
2. Fans are friends, for they fuel your ambitions.
3. You start seeing a story in every situation of not only your life, but of anybody's life who happens to cross your eyes. The whole world seems to be a big story, with each event having a tale to tell of its own.
4. All you need as a writer is a friend who has some time to listen to your thoughts, ideas for stories and tales sprouting in your mind and suggest to make it more real, better and touching. I thank God for giving me such friends - Rajiv, Ravi, Aman, Aishy, Saumya, Ankit, Keshav, Avinav, Pallavi, Supriya and Apoorv.
5. You come to know the difference between the real criticism and the biased ones. The real criticism is the one which suggests you how to improve.
6. You get to know how to handle appreciation as well as criticism with an open mind. You tend to respect the genuine criticism and ignore the biased ones.
7. You like to appreciate aspiring writers more, since once you too were at their place and you see yourself in them.
8. You don't encounter any hitch about whether you'll be able to write another book or not. Confidence in writing touches the acme.
9. You don't need to worry about getting published! Once published, relieved forever.
10. There are just two kinds of 'readers' - those who like you as a writer and those who don't!
11. However, you often encounter the third kind of 'people' (not readers) - they are those who hate you, without any reasons and you feel sorry for them because they need help. My Dad, who happens to be my only mentor, said to me just before I was going to get published, 'If somebody dislikes your work, then there is something wrong with you. But, if somebody hates you/your work, then there is something wrong with him/her.'
12. Each small accomplishment seems to be just a beginning in the never-ending road of life. You realize the BIG-ness of the word called 'life'.
13. You find it really funny when you encounter sudden hostility from strangers - those who don't even know you. It brings a strange kind of pleasure, more so because this kind of hostility owes its origin to envy.
14. In the end, it's just you and the flight of your imagination that plays the melody - it's the flight of your lifetime and you just wish that it never ends.
P.S. This is completely personal recount. Any similarity is purely co-incidental.
1. The real friends show enormous faith in you! They are the ones who share your happiness.
2. Fans are friends, for they fuel your ambitions.
3. You start seeing a story in every situation of not only your life, but of anybody's life who happens to cross your eyes. The whole world seems to be a big story, with each event having a tale to tell of its own.
4. All you need as a writer is a friend who has some time to listen to your thoughts, ideas for stories and tales sprouting in your mind and suggest to make it more real, better and touching. I thank God for giving me such friends - Rajiv, Ravi, Aman, Aishy, Saumya, Ankit, Keshav, Avinav, Pallavi, Supriya and Apoorv.
5. You come to know the difference between the real criticism and the biased ones. The real criticism is the one which suggests you how to improve.
6. You get to know how to handle appreciation as well as criticism with an open mind. You tend to respect the genuine criticism and ignore the biased ones.
7. You like to appreciate aspiring writers more, since once you too were at their place and you see yourself in them.
8. You don't encounter any hitch about whether you'll be able to write another book or not. Confidence in writing touches the acme.
9. You don't need to worry about getting published! Once published, relieved forever.
10. There are just two kinds of 'readers' - those who like you as a writer and those who don't!
11. However, you often encounter the third kind of 'people' (not readers) - they are those who hate you, without any reasons and you feel sorry for them because they need help. My Dad, who happens to be my only mentor, said to me just before I was going to get published, 'If somebody dislikes your work, then there is something wrong with you. But, if somebody hates you/your work, then there is something wrong with him/her.'
12. Each small accomplishment seems to be just a beginning in the never-ending road of life. You realize the BIG-ness of the word called 'life'.
13. You find it really funny when you encounter sudden hostility from strangers - those who don't even know you. It brings a strange kind of pleasure, more so because this kind of hostility owes its origin to envy.
14. In the end, it's just you and the flight of your imagination that plays the melody - it's the flight of your lifetime and you just wish that it never ends.
P.S. This is completely personal recount. Any similarity is purely co-incidental.
5 comments:
Nice blend of ur words and reality ...
Criticism is an indication of the coming success ..
Hope ur new book is a bigger hit than ur previous one ...
Take care, god bless
Way to go!! Go on discovering the world and bettering yourself in the process...
Thank you so much! Hope to make you all proud soon!
i liked d 13th most!! pata h kya?!!
wen sme idea sprouts in my mind.. .obvsly abt my blog...its like..it captures my thinkin totally... ideas dev into sentence ....sentences into paras...n i m not able to breathe till i pour it out n finally publish!!!
@Yashfeen - I can very well feel what you mean. This is called passion, which can make you lose your sleep.
I would urge you to read a small poem called 'My Passion' in my blog synergy.
Here's the link -
http://harshsnehanshu.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-passion-my-success.html
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