Ask the Author: Chazzy Patel
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Chazzy Patel
High Season will be my first book in a strange way and well-needed art therapy. I had written two manuscripts while I was traveling the past few years from 2009 to 2015. Last year, I had been attacked and lost a great deal of my memories from a head injury and the way I processed things around me. This also included forgetting that I had written two manuscripts. Using those manuscripts, photography, the internet, a good therapist, dorky lawyer, support of friends and family… I slowly pieced myself together again…lol…Somewhat.
High Season: The Learnings of Mohammad Wang was essentially a medical suggestion to continue documenting my thoughts, ideas, and things I remembered. Throwing in my own chaotic past, friends, pirates, a tropical paradise, humorous imagination, and a 500 year old gold heist, I began writing High Season in May 2016 finishing the first draft in June.
Like I said above, remixed the things and inspiration from my head and real life and vomited them out in fictional words :)
High Season: The Learnings of Mohammad Wang was essentially a medical suggestion to continue documenting my thoughts, ideas, and things I remembered. Throwing in my own chaotic past, friends, pirates, a tropical paradise, humorous imagination, and a 500 year old gold heist, I began writing High Season in May 2016 finishing the first draft in June.
Like I said above, remixed the things and inspiration from my head and real life and vomited them out in fictional words :)
Chazzy Patel
The people around me. I am very fortunate and grateful to have so many amazing people in my life. They are human in every sense! Like myself, flawed in the most beautiful ways :)
Chazzy Patel
I am currently launching High Season: The Learnings of Mohammad Wang. You can find it under my novels and hope you grab a copy!
I am also editing a Photobook for publishing later this year called Lost&Found. A collection of images and essays of my world travels between 2009 to 2016.
I am also editing a Photobook for publishing later this year called Lost&Found. A collection of images and essays of my world travels between 2009 to 2016.
Chazzy Patel
Everyone has a novel in them. Just have to sit down and get it out :)
Chazzy Patel
Taking the burden of all that is stirring in your head and being able to free it in the world with a simple method of putting it in written word. It's been a good friend and therapy.
Chazzy Patel
I haven't really experienced writer's block during my process to get my novels first drafts. I experience it in the beginning in my process to get it out but the method I have been using is pretty easy and I encourage writers to give it a whirl.
1 Make little notes on creative ideas to tell a story, personal interests in the present time that excite me, Little traits/behaviors you like and/or dislike in myself and people around me. Get creative with them first. People in our lives are great inspiration for fictional characters.
2. Remix those together in your head till it drives you nuts and set a writing date and time that will sit and look at a blank screen for 2-3 hours every day. Whatever time you believe you can free yourself from everything. Just you in your head and a blank screen. No internet either. Take away everything distractive.
3. Sit there every day at the same time in your head, looking at that blank screen. It takes an average of 1 to 2 weeks before it all vomits into a first draft for myself. This is the only time I get writer's block but it's important I go thru it.
Time is a very valuable and respecting it is key for me with writing and wasting it pisses me off creatively somewhere in my head to do something about it.
1 Make little notes on creative ideas to tell a story, personal interests in the present time that excite me, Little traits/behaviors you like and/or dislike in myself and people around me. Get creative with them first. People in our lives are great inspiration for fictional characters.
2. Remix those together in your head till it drives you nuts and set a writing date and time that will sit and look at a blank screen for 2-3 hours every day. Whatever time you believe you can free yourself from everything. Just you in your head and a blank screen. No internet either. Take away everything distractive.
3. Sit there every day at the same time in your head, looking at that blank screen. It takes an average of 1 to 2 weeks before it all vomits into a first draft for myself. This is the only time I get writer's block but it's important I go thru it.
Time is a very valuable and respecting it is key for me with writing and wasting it pisses me off creatively somewhere in my head to do something about it.
Chazzy Patel
I have Two. Gatsby & Daisy from a favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald. This quote has taken me back certain moments in my life "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.- F. Scott Fitzgerald". He had a great way of placing alot of his real life experiences in his writings. I admire how alive these two became to me.
Second is Rick and Ilsa from Casablanca. I won't list my favorite quotes. There are many! My reason for these two was the darker side of love and time. Plus, it's freaking Humphrey Bogart!
Second is Rick and Ilsa from Casablanca. I won't list my favorite quotes. There are many! My reason for these two was the darker side of love and time. Plus, it's freaking Humphrey Bogart!
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