1. Introduce yourself to the audience.
Hello readers. I
am Bhumika, a journalist at 21, and work for a news website in Delhi. My heart
and soul is in a small town of MP, but
my career keeps moving, hopefully soon across the globe. I have been writing across different platforms for a
few years now, and this was my second venture of getting published. I am an ambivert with
knack for words. I say words because I listen to music which speaks to me through the words, I read books
over movie and I write over talking. I am gladly a weird girl, fun girl, talk-to-in-emergency girl,
and what not, because tags stopped bothering me long back.
2. Define yourself in
one word.
Eclectic
3. At what stage of your life you started writing?
I was more of a
scribbler since the time I lost my first best friend and I was just 16 then. It
was a way to let out things I didn't
realize I had in me, and even today what I write comes as a surprise to even me.
4. What motivates you to write?
Emotions, Thoughts,
Actions, People, actually anything and everything motivate me to jot down.
In complete honesty, my thoughts are in
a whirlwind most of the times, and I write. Truly speaking, anything that crosses me, finds a way in my
words.
5. What interests you most; fiction, nonfiction, travelogue,
biography, horror, adult or young adult?
I enjoy fiction as
well as travelogue the most. But in the past year with my career choice
nonfiction is my way of life, and
therefore, biographies help me find perspectives to things.
6.To you, which is a better medium to express; prose,
poetry, art, film, play or any other and why?
Every medium of
art is an amazing way to express, but to me prose is my haven. There are so many amazing works which have been reiterated in
different ways, but to me the originality of words out there on pages is the only way I feel
everything in my bones.
7. What would you like to be
reborn as?
When I was a kid,
my answer would have always been as a boy, but since I'm old enough to understand gender issues, I have never
thought about this.
8. Which is more important to you; money or
fame?
This is tough. I
would be stupid to just deny the importance of money or even fame, because
both keep you moving to achieve higher,
be better. And, I believe both complement each other fairly good, but what’s fame in rags or what’s money in
defamation? So, these can’t be supplements to me, but always complimentary.
9. How do you react when
rejected by the publishers?
Honestly speaking,
I don’t know about this because this is just my second try which was
successful, but I have written some bad
stories or works and of course, I felt bad. But I have this sense of taking
up my accountability, so usually I go
after the person to explain my errors and work on it. Be it criticism or review, I need to understand the reason to
improve it and that’s my way to deal with rejection.
10. Your valuable suggestions to
the prospective writers?
Even though I am
fairly new to this field, I can speak only on the basis of my experience. Open
your ears, eyes, mind and of course, your
heart. Keep the doors for ideas open, and jot down your idea as soon as possible. And always write in the
flow. Write rubbish, but write at the moment. And always and I emphasize ‘always’ edit, re-edit and
re-re-edit your work. Plus, what my teacher has always advised, Read-Read-Read.
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