Ask the Author: Shine Syamaladevi
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Shine Syamaladevi
The Patient, After the Crash, Black water Lillies
Shine Syamaladevi
The Patient, After the Crash, Black water Lillies
Shine Syamaladevi
The Patient, After the Crash, Black water Lillies
Shine Syamaladevi
Hi, I had dispatched the book on 09 Jun through India Speed post, to the address earlier provided by you. However, it was returned as incomplete address. I had also sent you a message on Goodreads intimating the same and requesting for complete address.
Please forward me your correct address including PIN code and contact details (mob or land line) to my email id authorshines@gmail. com
Please forward me your correct address including PIN code and contact details (mob or land line) to my email id authorshines@gmail. com
Shine Syamaladevi
Forget what you are.
Yes, that’s the first step towards preparing yourself to address public. You maybe weak in studies, bad at sports, worse at imagination, so what? Nobody bothers about it. They are there to listen to you, waiting for your opinion, your thought, your view about a particular thing. I agree that it is not easy to master the art of public speaking. It requires days (and months) of preparation and practice. Nobody has ever turned a successful public speaker in an eyes blink. It was always a result of meticulous planning and preparation.
I can give you a few tips, which can help you in developing into a public speaker:
(1) Read, read and read. Read a lot. Read whatever comes your way. Read everything, but absorb only the thing you feel right. Read across genres, fiction and non-fiction, journals and newspapers. Concentrate on wide-reading, not in in-depth reading, unless you are trying to specialize in particular field.
(2) Observe, everything around. It is not that you will stare at people and things much to their inconvenience. No, don’t do that. BTW, your observation skill will improve by itself through reading, without you realizing that.
(3) Learn looking into eyes of the people during conversation. Because it shows your confidence. Don’t keep on checking your grammar and other things inwardly. Nobody cares whether your grammar is correct or not. They are interested in the information/idea/knowledge you have got. And that makes my next point…preparation.
(4) Prepare as much as possible for the talk you are about to give. None can have 100% knowledge about anything, but we can, at least, try for that. Don’t mix-up the things, arrange the things you have prepared in an orderly manner.
(5) Don’t vomit everything you prepared at once. Audience also require time to think, to understand the things you say. So, pause in between, let silence speak to them, let the idea sink in. You need to understand where to raise your voice, where to lower, where to stop, where to pause. Learn voice modulation. If you don’t know anything about it, listen to our PM Modi’s (sorry, Modi-haters, but he is a powerful and successful public speaker) speeches, which are available in Youtube. You will understand how he puts his points across and it was successful. That was one of the reasons for the BJP’s massive victory during the previous parliament election.
(6) Practice the speech with modulation, as much as you can, in front of a mirror. Practice also will improve your confidence level.
(7) Believe that the audience have come to listen only you (you don’t have to think about the other speakers on the list). Just simply say to yourself that the audience is YOURS.
Get back to me, if you are unable to became a successful public speaker even after following the above-mentioned steps :) (authorshines@gmail.com)
Yes, that’s the first step towards preparing yourself to address public. You maybe weak in studies, bad at sports, worse at imagination, so what? Nobody bothers about it. They are there to listen to you, waiting for your opinion, your thought, your view about a particular thing. I agree that it is not easy to master the art of public speaking. It requires days (and months) of preparation and practice. Nobody has ever turned a successful public speaker in an eyes blink. It was always a result of meticulous planning and preparation.
I can give you a few tips, which can help you in developing into a public speaker:
(1) Read, read and read. Read a lot. Read whatever comes your way. Read everything, but absorb only the thing you feel right. Read across genres, fiction and non-fiction, journals and newspapers. Concentrate on wide-reading, not in in-depth reading, unless you are trying to specialize in particular field.
(2) Observe, everything around. It is not that you will stare at people and things much to their inconvenience. No, don’t do that. BTW, your observation skill will improve by itself through reading, without you realizing that.
(3) Learn looking into eyes of the people during conversation. Because it shows your confidence. Don’t keep on checking your grammar and other things inwardly. Nobody cares whether your grammar is correct or not. They are interested in the information/idea/knowledge you have got. And that makes my next point…preparation.
(4) Prepare as much as possible for the talk you are about to give. None can have 100% knowledge about anything, but we can, at least, try for that. Don’t mix-up the things, arrange the things you have prepared in an orderly manner.
(5) Don’t vomit everything you prepared at once. Audience also require time to think, to understand the things you say. So, pause in between, let silence speak to them, let the idea sink in. You need to understand where to raise your voice, where to lower, where to stop, where to pause. Learn voice modulation. If you don’t know anything about it, listen to our PM Modi’s (sorry, Modi-haters, but he is a powerful and successful public speaker) speeches, which are available in Youtube. You will understand how he puts his points across and it was successful. That was one of the reasons for the BJP’s massive victory during the previous parliament election.
(6) Practice the speech with modulation, as much as you can, in front of a mirror. Practice also will improve your confidence level.
(7) Believe that the audience have come to listen only you (you don’t have to think about the other speakers on the list). Just simply say to yourself that the audience is YOURS.
Get back to me, if you are unable to became a successful public speaker even after following the above-mentioned steps :) (authorshines@gmail.com)
Shine Syamaladevi
October to February is the season for visiting Goa. Many of the tour operators have charter flights to the place during the period. You can book direct tickets also. There are good resorts and hotels on the seashore. You can check out Cidade de Goa, Majorda Beach Resort, Le Meridian etc:- You can rent bike and see around Goa by yourself. Goans understand and speak English. Hence you may not face much problem in communicating with them. Goa is comparatively a safe state in India.
Shine Syamaladevi
Hi Rowland, I consider Goa as the most serene state in India. Land of Sun n sand. Superficial visit is not enough to feel her. You have to explore her inner beauty, breath in the peace and slip into the realm of calmness listening to the waves at the vast beaches.
However, sadly, the beauty is diminishing fast due to unruly construction and deforestation.
Please visit the state, if you haven't yet, since her beauty may not last long :(
However, sadly, the beauty is diminishing fast due to unruly construction and deforestation.
Please visit the state, if you haven't yet, since her beauty may not last long :(
Shine Syamaladevi
When you are passionate about a thing, inspiration comes by itself. Be passionate about your dream, rest everything will happen by itself.
Remember, life is not about eating, sleeping, fighting and dying one day.
Remember, life is not about eating, sleeping, fighting and dying one day.
Shine Syamaladevi
I've completed the first draft of my second novel and am editing it presently.
Shine Syamaladevi
Don't follow the bandwagon. Write what YOU want to read. Don't hurry. Take your time. Don't send your first draft to publishers. They'll never respond (until and unless they are Vanity Publishers). Keep the first draft for incubation for a period of two months minimum (At the same time, I am sure that most of you won't have the patience to keep yourself away from your baby- so make it one month. At least, no reduction now). Then, read your manuscript again and edit. Once you are fully satisfied with the MSS, and have enough patience to wait, send it to Publishers.
The waiting period may feel like eternity, but that's not the case. Some or other will respond surely, if you worked hard on the book.
Go ahead. Conquer your heart. Conquer the world.
All the best.
The waiting period may feel like eternity, but that's not the case. Some or other will respond surely, if you worked hard on the book.
Go ahead. Conquer your heart. Conquer the world.
All the best.
Shine Syamaladevi
Once only I've experienced writer's block. It was a stalemate kind of situation. There was no path ahead for my protagonist. He stood confused, looking around, expecting light from any part of the world.
I was truly worried. I felt that I am drained off my writing prowess. Then, I decided to wait.
Wait for the hero to find his way out.
And gladly, on the third day, while returning from evening walk,the way ahead materialized in front of me in the form of a girl. It was a windy evening and she was crossing the bridge nearby my home. She had her head covered with a gray scarf.
So my dear budding writers, don't panic in case of writer's block. Just wait. Wait. Wait for the protagonist to do something. Give him some time to channelize his thoughts. And surely he/she will know what to do next.
I was truly worried. I felt that I am drained off my writing prowess. Then, I decided to wait.
Wait for the hero to find his way out.
And gladly, on the third day, while returning from evening walk,the way ahead materialized in front of me in the form of a girl. It was a windy evening and she was crossing the bridge nearby my home. She had her head covered with a gray scarf.
So my dear budding writers, don't panic in case of writer's block. Just wait. Wait. Wait for the protagonist to do something. Give him some time to channelize his thoughts. And surely he/she will know what to do next.
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