Ask the Author: Gayathri Jayakumar
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Gayathri Jayakumar
Thinking of returning to the classics and mythology
Gayathri Jayakumar
Definitely Narnia as a Private secretary to Aslan !!
Gayathri Jayakumar
Not exactly my genre...But could give it a try...:
I woke up tonight for I felt drained and thirsty to find a shadow, very opaque, muscular, yet misshapen, with fiery red eyes and smoke curling away from the skin glaring straight into my soul, happy to find me awake. As i write this, perhaps my last note in a concious mind, i find its fingers entangled with my toes and the blood vessels on my leg branching into my body like pitch black roots spreading under the earth, smoke rising from where it touched my skin and all that i feel is fear gripping my heart, all senses dulled and paralysed as the burning form spreads into my body through my veins, my blood boiling and evaporating away into the grip of this terror I know not what precisley is!
I woke up tonight for I felt drained and thirsty to find a shadow, very opaque, muscular, yet misshapen, with fiery red eyes and smoke curling away from the skin glaring straight into my soul, happy to find me awake. As i write this, perhaps my last note in a concious mind, i find its fingers entangled with my toes and the blood vessels on my leg branching into my body like pitch black roots spreading under the earth, smoke rising from where it touched my skin and all that i feel is fear gripping my heart, all senses dulled and paralysed as the burning form spreads into my body through my veins, my blood boiling and evaporating away into the grip of this terror I know not what precisley is!
Gayathri Jayakumar
Hi Varna, Goodreads being a page in English i prefer to answer to you in English (no offense).
Writing for me is like a purifying act. Helps me drain away what ever is stagnant in my mind. Everything good and bad, sad and happy and all the emotions and thoughts that churns inside me is emptied out onto paper when i write. There are times when my mind is turbulent from emotional intensity, and then instead of crying or laughing that away i prefer to write. The relief i feel after letting my hand suffer my pain is amazing. So yes, writing for me is a panacea that can cure any ailment and of course, like i always say, it is a ticket out of the real world into a flight of fantasy.
Writing for me is like a purifying act. Helps me drain away what ever is stagnant in my mind. Everything good and bad, sad and happy and all the emotions and thoughts that churns inside me is emptied out onto paper when i write. There are times when my mind is turbulent from emotional intensity, and then instead of crying or laughing that away i prefer to write. The relief i feel after letting my hand suffer my pain is amazing. So yes, writing for me is a panacea that can cure any ailment and of course, like i always say, it is a ticket out of the real world into a flight of fantasy.
Gayathri Jayakumar
The idea was always in me; to publish a book of my own.
Gayathri Jayakumar
My advice for aspiring writers?? Write. Never stop writing and never stop trying. Reactions and responses will be slow and cold. Ignore them. Find peace in your your talent and not in harsh criticisms.
Gayathri Jayakumar
I don't. I take the advantage of the writer's block to channel my creativity into somethings else, like drawing. When after a long time i begin writing again, all the dormant words gain a great depth and intensity and they rush out from my mind into poetry.
Gayathri Jayakumar
The best thing about being a writer is to have the license to write lies without having to be judged or misunderstood for that act of lying.
Gayathri Jayakumar
I'm currently working on reviving the verse-fiction genre. The story of a girl unfolds through short verses, each corresponding to a chapter that we find in a usual novel.
Gayathri Jayakumar
Nature has always inspired the poet and artist in me. When i see nature i feel a heaviness in my heart and it never ease away untill i have my ideas flowing out through my pen.
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