Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an aspiring engineer, entrepreneur, and a passionate content writer. ‘The Mindful Blunders’ is my first novel and I am really motivated to work on more. A creator and learner in the day, a writer in the night. I also write non-fiction on subjects ranging from personal development to psychology to technology. Bibliophile, learner and initiator. Right Now, I am already working on my second book. I hope this journey goes long.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is “the mindful blunders”, and since it is the story of a boy who really made a blunders into his mind. After the completion of my book, I ran a poll between two names, one was the deceptive existence and other one was the mindful blunders. It was a hard choice as both the names were depeciting the story of the book. Then after some market analysis we found that the mindful blunders was a easy to understand name so we chose later.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I prefer to write in the darkness of the night. That time, the world is sleeping but my mind do the race. Since it is the most silent part of the day, it helps me write good piece of writing. Also I prefer to write in little dark environment which helps me in focus on my work.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
In last two years, I have read around 60 novels ranging from love story to self help. I loved most of them but if I have to put some names out as my favorite it would be surely, Amish Tripathi for the trilogy and Khaled Hosseini for the kite runner and the thousand splendid suns.
What are you working on now?
Right Now, I am working on a plot which is based of a real life story and the genre is the same as my first book. It is going to be thriller as well as self help.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Since it is my first book so I don’t have much idea about all these but still I am trying my best on social media platforms and also conducting webinars to engage people in story of the book.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Observing mind and understanding nature, I advice authors to understand their environment and observe things happening around them. For great ideas, we don’t have dig into some well of ideas but to observe the events around us. Once you observed the event, now understand it, make your own thesis, add some of your imagination and innovation and you will be having a great outline for your book.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
About finding the joy in writing. Some one told me that the writers they speak to seem committed to finding the joy within their work, even if that means looking in the most unexpected places. “One of the things that aids me, and which he helped teach me, is this: fundamentally, they do not believe in despair as a real aspect of the human condition,” says Ayana Mathis. “There is great confusion, there is great pain, there is suffering, all of those things, yes. But despair? I don’t believe in despair, and I don’t write from despair. I write from difficulty, absolutely. I write about people who are in great pain, who are desperate and sometimes even miserable. But despair, to me, means an absolute absence of hope. It is a nothing. There is always hope for betterment.”
But it’s not just leaving room for hope and levity on the page. It’s about retaining one’s own capacity to find joy within the process, making sure the work’s difficulty never fully squeezes out delight.
What are you reading now?
Right now I am reading “Inner Engineering by Sadhguru”. Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy is a spiritual book by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. The book is intended to be a spiritual guide with practices for personal growth, and also a look at the author’s own spiritual journey.
What’s next for you as a writer?
My first book goes under the self publishing category but I want my books under the traditional publishing houses. So My next mission is to being published by some renowned traditional publisher.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
If I am going to be stranded on a desert island, I would like to take Desert Survival , Inner Engineering and for some laugh, three men in a boat.
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