Ask the Author: Hemanth Kumar Bathala
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Hemanth Kumar Bathala
From Dream! Yes, it struck me in my dream.
I was trying to fall asleep but not yet fully into deep-sleep, where you forget yourself/your consciousness in dream - and in that semi-dream state I got, or rather formed, the concept of Jasmine.
And so the Merrylyn turned Green.
Soon Twister came-in as a kidnapper.
Since Jasmine and Twister came into being, Naren was born who would go on an epic-quest.
From the epic-quest was born the new world 'Land of 7', which became the title of the story. (And later the name of the Series.)
Thus the book ‘Land of 7’ was born...
To captivate all of us!!!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
I was trying to fall asleep but not yet fully into deep-sleep, where you forget yourself/your consciousness in dream - and in that semi-dream state I got, or rather formed, the concept of Jasmine.
And so the Merrylyn turned Green.
Soon Twister came-in as a kidnapper.
Since Jasmine and Twister came into being, Naren was born who would go on an epic-quest.
From the epic-quest was born the new world 'Land of 7', which became the title of the story. (And later the name of the Series.)
Thus the book ‘Land of 7’ was born...
To captivate all of us!!!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
Hemanth Kumar Bathala
I don't wait for inspiration to strike me! I just begin to write.
Because waiting for inspiration is like waiting for the lightning to strike you. It rarely happens.
But I do get ideas from society and surroundings - things happening in my surroundings. If you call it inspiration I'm okay for it.
But I always want to write a great book. That itself is an inspiration to me – that I writing the next blockbuster. You may call it self-inspiration.
So, The fact that I am writing a/the next great book is inspiration to me. And I’m happy with that.
Or you might say all the books I read (Which you find on Goodreads.com in my account) have been inspiration to me for they invoked an urge in me to write better books than them with due respect to them.
Writing a good book had always been an inspiration and guidance to me.
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
Because waiting for inspiration is like waiting for the lightning to strike you. It rarely happens.
But I do get ideas from society and surroundings - things happening in my surroundings. If you call it inspiration I'm okay for it.
But I always want to write a great book. That itself is an inspiration to me – that I writing the next blockbuster. You may call it self-inspiration.
So, The fact that I am writing a/the next great book is inspiration to me. And I’m happy with that.
Or you might say all the books I read (Which you find on Goodreads.com in my account) have been inspiration to me for they invoked an urge in me to write better books than them with due respect to them.
Writing a good book had always been an inspiration and guidance to me.
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
Hemanth Kumar Bathala
'Land of 7 - The Heavenly Object' (Book 8)
This is the seventh sequel to my Series 'Land of 7' (The first book in the series also goes by the same name 'Land of 7' and is just released :) ).
As you might have guessed, it - the Heavenly Object - is only a place holder for the actual words which I intend to keep a secret from others copying the title. :)
"A heavenly object appears on the sky, and Mahesh wants to follow it as he decides to do something new each day from that day onward!..."
Want to know more?
Then read the book!
You will have to wait to go through all the 6 sequels of ‘Land of 7’ till this!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
PS: But it will be an awesome journey! :)
This is the seventh sequel to my Series 'Land of 7' (The first book in the series also goes by the same name 'Land of 7' and is just released :) ).
As you might have guessed, it - the Heavenly Object - is only a place holder for the actual words which I intend to keep a secret from others copying the title. :)
"A heavenly object appears on the sky, and Mahesh wants to follow it as he decides to do something new each day from that day onward!..."
Want to know more?
Then read the book!
You will have to wait to go through all the 6 sequels of ‘Land of 7’ till this!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
PS: But it will be an awesome journey! :)
Hemanth Kumar Bathala
Write. Just write. Just write something.
And keep on doing it.
Don't emulate others. Have your own style. The world wants your style. Because it is unique! The style you try to emulate is already present in the world. So, Why would anybody want it – a stereotype? ;) (I would get to it again below in a minute with a different point of view!) So, Develop your own style. :)
The world needs your story; your style. Not somebody else's.
And having said that, Emulate others! Yes, you can emulate others. No problem. :) As long as you don’t plagiarize!
Who doesn't want Sherlock Holmes should never end?!
So either you can emulate others or decide not to. Or you can do both – in your story! It’s not a problem. But keep writing. Get your story out. Any way.
For the world wants your story out, whether emulated or not!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
PS: Read the Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White to get your style right. And read the writers’ take on writing (there are books available on writing) and mould your book accordingly. People would love to read your book, whatever you might have written, just for the style! – your style!
PS2: And importantly write stories that you would love to read! I do.
PS3: No Purple Prose!
I think I will end with this for I'm keeping on getting tips, on and on, for ever!
And keep on doing it.
Don't emulate others. Have your own style. The world wants your style. Because it is unique! The style you try to emulate is already present in the world. So, Why would anybody want it – a stereotype? ;) (I would get to it again below in a minute with a different point of view!) So, Develop your own style. :)
The world needs your story; your style. Not somebody else's.
And having said that, Emulate others! Yes, you can emulate others. No problem. :) As long as you don’t plagiarize!
Who doesn't want Sherlock Holmes should never end?!
So either you can emulate others or decide not to. Or you can do both – in your story! It’s not a problem. But keep writing. Get your story out. Any way.
For the world wants your story out, whether emulated or not!
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
PS: Read the Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White to get your style right. And read the writers’ take on writing (there are books available on writing) and mould your book accordingly. People would love to read your book, whatever you might have written, just for the style! – your style!
PS2: And importantly write stories that you would love to read! I do.
PS3: No Purple Prose!
I think I will end with this for I'm keeping on getting tips, on and on, for ever!
Hemanth Kumar Bathala
The Creative aspect. You create something that was not existing before. You create something out of thin air. Like a magician! A Wizard!
A Wizard in the real word. Yes, a Wizard in the real world! What a Wizard in your story does, you do that in the real world! By writing a story.
You place your baby – the just completed novel of yours - in the hands of others and they love it, it gives you a kick, a high. It – the feeling - is inexplicable.
You are a creator. Like a sculptor, as he sculpts, has a sculpture in hand, I have a brand new thing in hand – my novel just created. And it is a great feeling!
An opportunity to titillate the readers with your writing, your style of writing; by playing with the words. An opportunity to take them high to low, and low to high. Create and take them through different moods, right away. Or different experiences they might or might not have faced so far!
You create an exciting new world with your words. Just by your words! The which to make into a movie will take huge efforts. All of that you accomplish just by your words! Repeat - words. And repeat - words.
For e.g., I wrote in my Novel ‘Land of 7’: “the six sheets of leather transformed themselves into six gems: a green emerald, a red ruby, a blue sapphire, a white pearl, an iridescent opal, and a black diamond. They slowly progressed toward the sword. When they reached the sword, they rapidly circled the golden sword, and then got embedded into it along its length with a thunder. The sword shone brilliantly than ever. It radiated luminous light. The cave was visible as in daylight under its radiance.”
And it takes really a lot of effort to actually show it in a drama or a movie, even if it is graphically! But in actuality, I created, in the mind of the reader, the above - a golden sword with 6 gems embedded into it – with just six words: an emerald, ruby, … That’s all it took me!
Similarly you can create and take the reader to new worlds that directors would perspire to replicate them into their movies. You and you alone have the opportunity to take readers to places existing or existing only in your mind! On a tour.
We do what few people could do – create.
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
A Wizard in the real word. Yes, a Wizard in the real world! What a Wizard in your story does, you do that in the real world! By writing a story.
You place your baby – the just completed novel of yours - in the hands of others and they love it, it gives you a kick, a high. It – the feeling - is inexplicable.
You are a creator. Like a sculptor, as he sculpts, has a sculpture in hand, I have a brand new thing in hand – my novel just created. And it is a great feeling!
An opportunity to titillate the readers with your writing, your style of writing; by playing with the words. An opportunity to take them high to low, and low to high. Create and take them through different moods, right away. Or different experiences they might or might not have faced so far!
You create an exciting new world with your words. Just by your words! The which to make into a movie will take huge efforts. All of that you accomplish just by your words! Repeat - words. And repeat - words.
For e.g., I wrote in my Novel ‘Land of 7’: “the six sheets of leather transformed themselves into six gems: a green emerald, a red ruby, a blue sapphire, a white pearl, an iridescent opal, and a black diamond. They slowly progressed toward the sword. When they reached the sword, they rapidly circled the golden sword, and then got embedded into it along its length with a thunder. The sword shone brilliantly than ever. It radiated luminous light. The cave was visible as in daylight under its radiance.”
And it takes really a lot of effort to actually show it in a drama or a movie, even if it is graphically! But in actuality, I created, in the mind of the reader, the above - a golden sword with 6 gems embedded into it – with just six words: an emerald, ruby, … That’s all it took me!
Similarly you can create and take the reader to new worlds that directors would perspire to replicate them into their movies. You and you alone have the opportunity to take readers to places existing or existing only in your mind! On a tour.
We do what few people could do – create.
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
Hemanth Kumar Bathala
I simply sit and write. Write something that comes to mind. It can be anything. It can be as simple as “How are you?”! For e.g., I wrote this – the next 4/5 sentences I wrote below are as they came to my mind in that order:
(1st Person:) "How are you?" (The 2nd person answering as:) "Not bad."
"Why 'not bad'? Can't you say something positive?"
"Not Bad is positive!"
"Positive? How?"
Now that 2nd person explains his situation (what happened to him, a flashback) – how bad it is that he saying ‘Not Bad’ is a Big positive! What he explains can be a big Comedy - Comedy in Tragedy – that is I can write a tragedy or better tragedies, a series of, which the reader receives as a comedy! - the which tragedy/comedy can span a chapter to a few chapters!
Or it can be the base of my entire novel itself!
So, Now you see, by simply sitting and writing whatever comes to my mind I'm set to write a whole novel! :)
And you know what? - This is ‘actually’ going to be the base of my 8th Sequel Novel 'Land of 7 - Being "Not Bad"'! Or 'Land of 7 - How Bad Things Can Go' Or 'Land of 7 - Untitled' - I can name this later. Thank you for asking this question and I in reply to this, when actually I'd a writer's block, now have a book in hand! :)
The trick here is to do above - just sit and write! But that is a hard time for me too - to do just that - sit and write; mind says procrastinate! So it's not as simple as that. But all I need to do to overcome a Writer's block is the above.
Hope it helps. :)
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
(1st Person:) "How are you?" (The 2nd person answering as:) "Not bad."
"Why 'not bad'? Can't you say something positive?"
"Not Bad is positive!"
"Positive? How?"
Now that 2nd person explains his situation (what happened to him, a flashback) – how bad it is that he saying ‘Not Bad’ is a Big positive! What he explains can be a big Comedy - Comedy in Tragedy – that is I can write a tragedy or better tragedies, a series of, which the reader receives as a comedy! - the which tragedy/comedy can span a chapter to a few chapters!
Or it can be the base of my entire novel itself!
So, Now you see, by simply sitting and writing whatever comes to my mind I'm set to write a whole novel! :)
And you know what? - This is ‘actually’ going to be the base of my 8th Sequel Novel 'Land of 7 - Being "Not Bad"'! Or 'Land of 7 - How Bad Things Can Go' Or 'Land of 7 - Untitled' - I can name this later. Thank you for asking this question and I in reply to this, when actually I'd a writer's block, now have a book in hand! :)
The trick here is to do above - just sit and write! But that is a hard time for me too - to do just that - sit and write; mind says procrastinate! So it's not as simple as that. But all I need to do to overcome a Writer's block is the above.
Hope it helps. :)
- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)
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