A Chat with Aashisha Chakraborty one of PM Yuva Author and winner of Khaafiya(Delhi Poetry Festival)
As per our Prem Sri Narendra Modiji an online competition is held to select 75 authors across the country who will be mentored and grouped to write extraordinary stories that showcase the glory of India, the beauty of India, the culture of India in fact everything about our land and our stories. So here I present to you one among those 75 selected authors. Welcome to this wellcast Ms. Asha Chakravarti and I am so happy that you have accepted my invitation to be on this wellcast
But, yes, as a writer, I feel that it's our responsibility to bring those issues to light and to responsibly talk about all these causes and all the people who have been involved in making these things happen. So my book, the 13 Year Old Queen and Her Inherited Destiny talks about one such freedom fighter from the Northeast who started becoming very active in the freedom movement from a very young age
It is inspired from your experience as a sales executive after your management graduation. So I would like to know like what prompted you or what inspired you to write a semi autobiographical book as your first book?
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So it's a combination of all these challenges, and I felt that it would be a good manual for women who would want to enter sales, or not just sales, but like any other job. And of course, it's not like a manual manual. Of course it's a story. It's a fun story with your drama and spices and masala and all those things about it
I will also tell in the arts field, in the Everywhere writing field, arts field, to ensure a women's voice is heard, the women's themselves will have to speak up their experiences. And it's a good way to speak the experience through a story than just putting it as a nonfiction. And where does Lao fit in? Lah said in everywhere. I am also an author
They can publish online and it will be like a repository online. Even if they're not ready to publish a book, they can definitely publish some stuff online. And it's also paid, so it gives you some money as well. So I think anyone can basically write for Readomania Premium. They can write their stories on Redomania. It's just like any other blog website. And they can also submit those stories under the banner Readomania Premium. They can email it under the submissions standard
I have been also exploring a lot for the past, I think from 2013 I have been exploring various writing platforms to showcase my work or just as a hobby before I decided to publish my work. And I agree that such platforms usually help you hone your skills because you can read others work and you can check what works and what doesn't work. I totally take that because without a medium like Watford, I would have never published my books
And someday I hope to take it to everybody and not just myself. And I don't know what I intend to do with it. I don't have a vision right now for it. I'm kind of focused on getting my ideas out because I've always wanted to wear a novelist. I think I will be doing something about it someday, and I would love it if more people are part of it. I would love to have you as a part of it and Frank
It's nice to hear about your blog. And though you don't have a vision at this point of time, I hope someday the vision comes and we can collaborate on that vision. And when it comes to interviews I schedule, I ensure that they have on the same day once I start. One of the key reasons is that when I do author interviews, I want to ensure that my interviewers get the best experience and they get good listeners
I'm a fun, quirky kind of a person, or maybe I'm a very deep person who writes all metaphorically, or that I am into nonfiction and this kind of stuff is not for me. So you are the one who will decide your genre, and that's how I think one will be able to navigate the whole literary ecosystem. So just forge ahead. Don't look back, don't get discouraged. It's a creative field. There are no rights
And before we end this one, I would say that do not take anything too seriously. Writing is supposed to be for you, and you shouldn't let any other viewpoints or any other ideas or someone's criticism of you debt to you from the actual act of writing
They will have a day job as such. But nevertheless, if you want to be recognized as a writer, you have to give it time, you have to stay committed and you need to grow your audience. And yeah, feedback is important, especially from readers. Writers will give you feedback on the plotline, on the character growth and all lot of technical information from their perspective. But it's the reader who gives you the information on emotional connection. So what clicks with readers?