Ask the Author: Deepak Karamungikar
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Deepak Karamungikar
She asked me to wait in the ball room while she spoke to her father. I strolled around, and stopped in front of her portrait from the 19th century.
Deepak Karamungikar
Just give it time. It will go away. Do not try hard to write. Writing is like a fountain, or spring - if nothing comes out, no amount of forcing will help. Just wait for things to settle down inside your mind and one day, ideas come back. It could take a day, or a week or even three years. But keep looking inside, ask yourself every day, if you're ready. If you are, your heart will know the answer!
Deepak Karamungikar
Once you've written a couple of books and dealt with a dozen characters or more, you start seeing the world through the eyes of the people around you. Because you've trained yourself to write as a character x or y or what he or she would do when a or b happens, it's inevitable that you start seeing all human beings (and places) around you as characters. And it's easier to be a good listener when you're a writer, since you want to find out more, always.
Deepak Karamungikar
Write, write and write. Write more than you talk. Unless you start writing you're going nowhere!
Deepak Karamungikar
When desire to tell a story that enthralls trumps all other emotions, you will find words appear on the paper automatically. I think that's the primary motivation - a deep desire to tell a good story.
Deepak Karamungikar
I got the idea of Rogue from a story I had heard about a 14-year-old who got accused in a murder case in the 1980s. There used to be stories about him being troublesome but nobody expected him to go down that path. His story fascinated me when I heard it first. That's how I ended up writing 'Rogue' - the story of a teenage gangster.
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