Ask any writer which part of their work they find the most challenging and I wouldn’t at all be surprised if many say it is editing. In my limited experience as an author I have found the process of editing to be both highly exhilarating and utterly frustrating!
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In my debut novel “It Can‘t Be You“ Shefali Belliappa is very annoyed with her father Colonel Belliappa for opposing Rashid whom she loves. The Colonel has recently re-married. His bride, a German lady some twenty years younger than him and only four years older than his daughter . Let’s see this extract from the book:
Happy New Year’s Day. My best wishes to you and yours for the best of health and every success. Huh? You might say. Has the clock stopped for this guy? It’s April now and in business terms , we are already one quarter into the new year as per the Gregorian calendar. That’s right but did you know that we in India have more than one New Year’s Day?
There’s no question! This is the Bloggers A-Z Challenge, right? B has to be for Blogging! That’s what has brought so many of us together. That’s what has created new interests, new aspirations and new dreams for millions of people the world over. Continue reading “B for Blogging!”
“It Can’t Be You” said the man and I smiled at him. I was getting used to this. My debut novel, a psychological thriller called ” It Can’t Be You” had just been published. I was happy it was doing very well. I had come in for a fair bit of good natured ribbing about the title. In fact I changed my Twitter profile to say “Thriller Writer. My friends say ‘It Can’t Be You”! Continue reading “Managing A for Anger”
In “It Can’t Be You”, Dinaz Dastur is my small tribute to India’s Parsi community. Every community has its stereotypes and the Hindi movies when I was growing up unfortunately showed the Parsi almost always in comical light. The men were doddering people with thick spectacles who were easily fooled and the women were stout and gregarious. In Dinaz, I have tried to characterize a young, beautiful and talented Parsi woman. Some of them are truly beautiful. Continue reading ““Dinaz Dastur”- A Tribute to the Parsis”
Yes, you have the hero and the heroine and a few other supporting characters. But what about the minor characters, who make relatively smaller appearances but do add to the flavour of your story? Continue reading “Minor Characters”
A few flashes from the past yesterday led me to think of trying to capture who might have, if at all, influenced the characters in It Can’t Be You. This is by no means a comprehensive list. It’s more a collection of thoughts as they came by. Here goes…”Reggie” Rege perhaps came from a Col. Rege who I knew in the early 70’s. One of my School friends, an Old Lawrencian served in his Regiment.
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