Ask the Author: Vihang A. Naik
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Vihang A. Naik
While I was travelling I usually get some bright ideas about creative writings...
Vihang A. Naik
it was somewhere around my ninth grade that I wrote my first lines, to my utter surprise it was my first verse. To be more precise I used to take morning walks at Maharishi Arvind Garden, Fatehgunj, Baroda. We lived very near to this garden. I believe garden is not pre condition of writing poetry but you see, the environment and the times and historical personal and social conditions must have caused me to take up the pen. I used to scribble verses during my morning walks in Garden. Then often reworked them to ignite aesthetic quality when read out to friends and at poetry circle ...I often get inspired to write then when I grew up in any way, some times i get idea , a though or a feeling or a conflict within me , some one , as if, tells me to pick up the pen and put down on a paper .....it is just like that .....or may be , at times different ...you don't know when or what will inspire you ....
Vihang A. Naik
i usually do not advice. But I would certainly inform my aspiring writers that this is not a rosy bed ...this is the road to speak out and practice your art ...it is for also those who want to toil in any condition. Aspiring writers , may be, after fame and name, but it does not come to all and every..do not get disappointed ....what the world out side want to read is your own poetry and nothing but the poetry ...which moves...which, may be, out of the box...
Vihang A. Naik
The best thing being a writer is that you are at advantage of practicing your art , whatever it may be , an artist is always looking forward to expressing ones art through , it may be , any medium , be it words or chisel
Vihang A. Naik
I take up to translating Gujarati poetry into English language . I thought , this is one of the way to deal with writer's block...However, it does not apply every time. Translating , is now , i think , is as much a creative art. I do not deny that it involves creative work ....
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