Ask the Author: Neha Yazmin
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Neha Yazmin
Easy. World of Harry Potter, of course! I'd first learn transfiguration and turn myself into an 11-year-old and enrol for Hogwarts :)
Neha Yazmin
So many things..... The escape, the creation, the feeling you get when you have finished a book and been on a journey with your characters....
I particularly love it when readers say they loved my characters, that they felt real and it was like they knew them (people say that a lot about Mukti and Jamie from the Soulmates Saga).
I particularly love it when readers say they loved my characters, that they felt real and it was like they knew them (people say that a lot about Mukti and Jamie from the Soulmates Saga).
Neha Yazmin
This summer, I'm most looking forward to reading A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas. It arrived yesterday, along with the first two books in the series (I read them last year but I wanted to re-read them before starting ACOWAR so I bought the whole trilogy!).
Also sitting on my bookshelf and waiting for me to get around to them since I bought them last year are I Am Pilgrim and The Bone Clocks.
Also sitting on my bookshelf and waiting for me to get around to them since I bought them last year are I Am Pilgrim and The Bone Clocks.
Neha Yazmin
Hi Pam,
Thanks for getting in touch. I'm really glad you enjoyed the Poison Blood books - I really appreciate you taking the time to rate those books and ask this question.
I am currently working on the third book in the Poison Blood series, as well as the third book in the Soulmates Saga (contemporary romance). My aim is to finish writing these by the end of this year. I will keep up updated through my Goodreads profile.
Once again, thank you for getting in touch :)
Neha
Thanks for getting in touch. I'm really glad you enjoyed the Poison Blood books - I really appreciate you taking the time to rate those books and ask this question.
I am currently working on the third book in the Poison Blood series, as well as the third book in the Soulmates Saga (contemporary romance). My aim is to finish writing these by the end of this year. I will keep up updated through my Goodreads profile.
Once again, thank you for getting in touch :)
Neha
Neha Yazmin
Short answer: Ellie (the main character in my paranormal romance novel Poison Blood, Book 1: Revelation).
Long answer: I’d wanted to write a vampire romance for a while, and I considered the idea of writing a series of short stories about vampires living on the London Underground. These characters wouldn’t necessarily be friends or hang out together, but have their own tale to tell. One of the characters I thought up was Ellie.
However, I didn’t start writing anything until I woke up one morning with Ellie talking me through her life. This was a few days after I listened to the band Linkin Park for the first time in years so I think it was their songs that triggered the instinct to write Ellie’s story. Music has that effect on me!
Interestingly, Chapter 1 is almost identical to the monologue that roused me that first morning! Quickly, it became clear that Ellie’s story wasn’t as short and sweet as I initially planned. She had a lot more potential than I expected, which was great, though it meant I had to put my Vampires on the Underground collection on the backburner.
Long answer: I’d wanted to write a vampire romance for a while, and I considered the idea of writing a series of short stories about vampires living on the London Underground. These characters wouldn’t necessarily be friends or hang out together, but have their own tale to tell. One of the characters I thought up was Ellie.
However, I didn’t start writing anything until I woke up one morning with Ellie talking me through her life. This was a few days after I listened to the band Linkin Park for the first time in years so I think it was their songs that triggered the instinct to write Ellie’s story. Music has that effect on me!
Interestingly, Chapter 1 is almost identical to the monologue that roused me that first morning! Quickly, it became clear that Ellie’s story wasn’t as short and sweet as I initially planned. She had a lot more potential than I expected, which was great, though it meant I had to put my Vampires on the Underground collection on the backburner.
Neha Yazmin
Usually, it takes a combination of different factors and experiences to inspire a whole novel. I take inspiration from good books, films, music, and of course anything interesting I know. I also draw on my knowledge of Psychology.
You do need one or two triggers to start writing though. For my debut novel Chasing Pavements, it was this bizarre vision I woke up with on the morning of August 1, 2010. I opened my eyes with Jamie in my head. I could see him so clearly - his hair, his eyes, his demeanour. As though he was a very good friend, I just knew him - his pain, his apathy, his past, his present. What I didn’t know was his future.
But I wanted to find out.
I spent the rest of the day thinking about him, his life, his family, and music. Christmas 2009 with Jamie and his family was the first scene that came to me that day.
Music had a critical part to play in it too. That summer, I had been obsessed with Muse’s single Neutron Star Collision and I knew that song represented Jamie (and Mukti) when he first came into my life. A fading star, losing his way.
The other song that had grabbed me was Marcus Foster’s I Was Broken (the lyrics speak of no longer being broken). That was the song I wanted to represent Jamie (and Mukti) at the end of the book. All year, I had been fascinated by the idea of two fading stars, coming together and then emerging brighter as one, and somehow this concept inspired the storyline.
You do need one or two triggers to start writing though. For my debut novel Chasing Pavements, it was this bizarre vision I woke up with on the morning of August 1, 2010. I opened my eyes with Jamie in my head. I could see him so clearly - his hair, his eyes, his demeanour. As though he was a very good friend, I just knew him - his pain, his apathy, his past, his present. What I didn’t know was his future.
But I wanted to find out.
I spent the rest of the day thinking about him, his life, his family, and music. Christmas 2009 with Jamie and his family was the first scene that came to me that day.
Music had a critical part to play in it too. That summer, I had been obsessed with Muse’s single Neutron Star Collision and I knew that song represented Jamie (and Mukti) when he first came into my life. A fading star, losing his way.
The other song that had grabbed me was Marcus Foster’s I Was Broken (the lyrics speak of no longer being broken). That was the song I wanted to represent Jamie (and Mukti) at the end of the book. All year, I had been fascinated by the idea of two fading stars, coming together and then emerging brighter as one, and somehow this concept inspired the storyline.
Neha Yazmin
I'm in the middle of two series, a contemporary romance series (the Soulmates Saga) and paranormal romance series (Poison Blood series).
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