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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 4:50

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I've been writing professionally for nearly two decades and I've come through the traditional route where I wrote poetry, got better at it, won awards, then moved on to writing short stories, got better at it, won awards, and by the time I graduated writing novels, the publishing business was in a death spiral and there's not a lot of opportunities for newer writers to be able to place the manuscript. So I kind of gave up on writing for a while

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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 4:28
So feel free to check it out on Indiannoir.com and you let me know why you think it's fantastic. Next question is, how long does it take to produce an episode? It takes 8.5 hours to produce 15 minutes of content for engineer that's writing, rewriting editing the script because you still have to produce good literature to be able to translate it to good audio fiction product
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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 3:27
So make sure that you are completely sold on the core idea of your podcast, that you are very interested in doing it for a long time because regularity is key in the podcasting space, be it for financial success or to get more listeners. Whatever your goal is, just make sure that you've got the basics right. Listen to a lot of podcasts, particularly the genre that you really enjoy, and make sure you take the best bits out of it. And I think you will find success
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Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:15
Hi, Nikesh. I would really love to know how you carry out the research for your stories. I mean, what's the process and how do you do it
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Olivia Debroy
@itsoliviaaaa · 0:28

time management

Hello sir. So I had an amazing time listening to your swell cast and it genuinely provided a lot of beautiful insights on your progression from a writer to a podcaster. And with that, I had a little question that how did you manage to find time within your busy schedule to produce your own podcast
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Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 0:11
Hey, Nikesh. Thanks for this, EMA. It's fascinating to hear you. I just have one question. Your voice is very gripping. So I was wondering if you trained for that
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Abhishek Negi
@Abhishek1156 · 0:09

Do you still dabble in poetry?

Hi Nikesh, from poetry to the horror genre is a challenging curve Indeed, do you still dabble in poetry
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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 2:00

@Aishani thanks so much for your question

With horror in particular, I think it's important to have a good knowledge of what the literary traditions are like and that can only come with extensively reading the works that form the literary Canon and so Lovecraft and Mackin and Alden and Blackwood and Stephen King and all the great. Just reading through the libraries really I think that is how I would describe my research
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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 2:00

@itsoliviaaaa thanks so much for your question

And I think Steven King has that famous quote of his, that talent is like table salt. Everyone's got it. It's really discipline that really helps artists prosper. And I think that's really the secret bum of the seat type commitment to whatever it is that you're doing. And the time will appear in your schedule magically
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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 1:45

@Karan.Dev thanks so much for your compliment

I trained up in doing theater lines and reciting all that stuff I did online through courses that were easily available to me and were fairly cheap. The wide world of the interwebs offers up such delights when it comes to a person who's seeking knowledge. So really, it was just a matter of finding the right course and doing it. So definitely a lot of training and practice and experience has gone into making my voice appropriate for the medium
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Nikesh Murali
@indiannoir · 1:00

@Abhishek1156

People who are poets generally seem to be very good with writing. Descriptive scenes, drawing the emotion of the scene, and you learn to write very briefly. Poetry certainly is the toughest art form to Dublin. To be really good at it, you have to be at a genius level. Very few people are good at that. That's definitely not me. I don't write poetry these days, and I think the world is a better place for it. But thank you for your questions
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