My Bumpy Journey – Fifth Month (February)

So, what am I calling this month? Well, let me name it as Movement Month. The explanation for this name will be given later. So February dawned with much gala. I felt immensely happy that I had yet another month of leave, albeit being a LOP (loss of pay) one. Though I loved staying at home and doing some reading and writing, I felt that I should do something more productive to keep myself busy throughout the day. I started scouring Upwork for potential writing jobs by the end of January. And, as luck would have it, I was contacted by a client who wanted me to write for his travel website (check tamilnaduvacation.com). The work was easy, as it involved interpreting YouTube videos and writing them as blog posts. I was back in the pavilion and I loved every bit of the writing work.

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Meanwhile, there were talks going on in my home regarding my baby shower function. Auspicious days in March were being looked at. Amidst all this, I was enjoying my days by doing my content writing, reading books (Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and Accident by Danielle Steel), eating different kinds of food and watching movies in my laptop. What’s more? I decided to self-publish my science-fiction short story Somewhere In A Song via Kindle Direct Publishing. I began working with my friend-cum-editor Dhivya Balaji, without whom the story would have been nothing. Her edits and suggestions were phenomenal for the good reviews that the story received later. I went through many revisions and drafts before I finalized on the perfect one that would endear readers. Since it was a genre that I hadn’t previously attempted, I was also afraid that my story would turn out to be a damp-squib. But I kept praying Sai Baba that it should go down well with the readers.

I also wrote a children’s short story for a contest in Juggernaut writing platform. Named as Larry And The Shining Stone, the story revolved around a boy Larry who discovers a meteorite in his garden and goes on a journey to the world of Alezandra. It got pretty good reviews from my near and dear ones. I have decided to expand the story and publish it as a picture book for my daughter. I am gonna gift it to her on her first birthday.