MY JOURNEY

I never dreamt of being an author. My writing journey started as a form of personal expression during college. I liked writing and I wanted to see how creative and intense I could write. During that same time I started writing a lot of short stories too. Over a period of time, my friends and family who would read my work realised my potential and pushed me to be more serious and posting towards the novel.
Even then I wasn’t sure, but I was willing to try and take up the challenge. I started to work deeper with the characters, mixing them with my imagination and people I knew in my life to create strong personalities. I did my research on the background of my book. Like for example: the narcotics bureau, their working, their pay, the laws regarding drugs, scope of working and so much more. I tried to make it as real as I could so that my fiction book could be the idle combination of reel and real life. I studied personalities (thanks to my background in psychology) and worked on different styles of dialogues to make each character unique.
Deciding plots was easy for me because I had the story clear in my head, but having the characters to live the plot was some work. The most difficult part was deciding the end. There were so many ways I could end the novel. I wanted my words and the story to stick with the readers even after they finished reading, and so to decide an end that could do exactly that was a challenge. I worked and reworked on multiple ends before deciding the final one. The end took 9 years from when I started, but the journey was worth it.
Of course, there was multiple re-reading during this time. Some days I used to write burning the midnight oil and other days when I was off, I didn’t write for months. Overall, I can say that the entire process of writing came with its own twists and turns. It was overwhelming at times, it made me cry and it made me smile. I can safely say, I lived the life of each of the characters in my book, as I wrote them.

The Goal of The Book

This book, though a fiction thriller, can be life changing. It’s a book that gets you thinking on little things in life, like the concept of right and wrong, perspectives, justice vs equality, importance of energies, and most importantly healing. My work background as a hypnotherapist and an energy healer has allowed me to talk about emotions, importance of acknowledging and releasing them and how it is absolutely normal and sometimes vital to seek therapy. The book encourages self-love, listening to your intuition, forgiving self and others and finally hope that things can and will get better. Through the journey of the protagonist, the reader lives and experiences guilt, hurt, pain, and comes out to experience hope, positivity and love. The ultimate goal of the book is to give hope to the readers. Everything may not be as you want, yet there is a silver lining and happiness is always yours if you are bold enough to choose it.