Ask the Author: Akshay Dhar
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Akshay Dhar
When I have an answer that actually solved the problem, I'll let you know - but so far it consists of berating myself every couple of days, keeping my writing tools visibly around and getting on my own nerves so that the procrastinator in me doesn't win and make days into months.
Trust me it's happened.
Mostly I just try and write even during blocked periods, even if it's a random blog post or a comic review or chatting on online forums and blabbing long - anything to keep the words flowing because it helps.
Trust me it's happened.
Mostly I just try and write even during blocked periods, even if it's a random blog post or a comic review or chatting on online forums and blabbing long - anything to keep the words flowing because it helps.
Akshay Dhar
Definitely the combination of (1) getting to tell stories that you dreamt up and (2) hearing from readers what they got out of it or how it excited them or inspired them or taught them something new.
It is the best feeling ever and unlike fame/infamy or rewards, the joy of it stays with you long after.
It is the best feeling ever and unlike fame/infamy or rewards, the joy of it stays with you long after.
Akshay Dhar
1. Just write.
2. You are your own worst critic and enemy - listen to yourself sparingly except when it's good things that motivate.
3. Accept and hear all advice even if you don't use it all. But if it's just nitpicking, take it with a pinch of salt. In fact take all input with a pinch of salt because no one person is 100% right or can account for absolute quality.
4. Keep reading and experiment with different genres and writers.
5. Try dabbling (even if for fun) in other creative mediums, it helps stretch the creative muscles in new ways.
2. You are your own worst critic and enemy - listen to yourself sparingly except when it's good things that motivate.
3. Accept and hear all advice even if you don't use it all. But if it's just nitpicking, take it with a pinch of salt. In fact take all input with a pinch of salt because no one person is 100% right or can account for absolute quality.
4. Keep reading and experiment with different genres and writers.
5. Try dabbling (even if for fun) in other creative mediums, it helps stretch the creative muscles in new ways.
Akshay Dhar
1) Second and Third drafts of my original Indian Dark Fantasy series of short, interconnected stories titled "The Dark Vedanta".
2) The second draft of my first full-novel that I wrote in college and am now very heavily rewriting to expand length and details that I've added to the concept over the years.
3) Co-writing the newest issue of the comic Holy Hell, plotting the first solo issue of Raakshas and (finally!) working on the 2nd installment of Retrograde now that the rights have reverted to me.
2) The second draft of my first full-novel that I wrote in college and am now very heavily rewriting to expand length and details that I've added to the concept over the years.
3) Co-writing the newest issue of the comic Holy Hell, plotting the first solo issue of Raakshas and (finally!) working on the 2nd installment of Retrograde now that the rights have reverted to me.
Akshay Dhar
Can't say I really know - I get ideas at the most random times and sometimes at even inopportune times and mostly I just love to tell stories so writing them down as best I can is my outlet for my own brand of weird.
Akshay Dhar
An overwhelming desire to write original stories that were not just replicants of the same old Western OR Eastern tropes but drew from my own experience with both over the years - specifically skewing the beaten-dead-horse that is mythology in the sub-continent.
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