In conversation with Dr. Sheetal Nair
•Do you plan to switch the genres you write? Will you shift to explore the fictitious stories?
Well I would like to dabble in various genres but then I’m someone who relies a lot on my disposition at the time of writing to inspire me to put pen to paper. I have indulged in fiction too, though I have been unable to complete any full novel as of yet. But as & when I do I shall delve in a Political Comedy or a Murder Mystery.
•What encourages you to write every day?
People. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. This is the exact thought that inspires me to write.
•Who assisted you the most when you chose to transform your writing to the book?
Well a lot of them did but mostly people around me, my family & my friends played an important part. My spouse with her internal compass allows me to be “me” & my son for whom I want to be a role model just like my father was for me.
•How can the writers make the stories realistic should they jot down the places that they already know or they can try with a new setting that is not familiar for them?
Well It is easier to express if you can make a connect between your characters & either your experiences or your surroundings. But one can take a deep dive into one’s self & explore the ideologies to which one holds the highest affinity to, it is easier to write about something which you strongly believe in.
•How is this book different from other self-help books?
I have a confession to make: I love self-help books, not just any self-help book, though. If it tells me that yoga is the answer to all of my problems, it’s going in the trash (well, recycling). If it insists that a change in attitude is all it takes to change my life, it becomes a door stopper. And if it uses the words “vibrational” or “manifest” more than a couple times? I’m having a bonfire with it.
So, when I wrote this book, I write with myself as a role model reader of this book, I kept it short & crispy. The advice in this book is so thorough that I had to write a journal specifically for taking notes while I wrote the book since I wanted to keep it short in the book. By the end, I wanted the readers to be not just energized, either — I wanted them to be prepared to make some meaningful shifts intheir life without going overboard.
