અહીં મેં દોસ્ત હિરેન સાથે ૩૦ મિનીટ લાંબી વાતો કરી છે. સીધા વિડીયો પર જઈને જોઈ શકો તો બેસ્ટ :
What do you need to be a published writer?
There are no answers! I stumbled upon writing!
What your body needs?
- Fitness (Running, Cycle)
- Focus (3-4 hours of focus on writing everyday)
- Endurance – ટકાઉ શક્તિ (Training your muscles to do, improve, repeat)
- Persistence (Ability to not give up in few days/months/years) (Understanding of JOB)
What your mind needs?:
- Common sense (Improve by reading. With company of better human)
- Reading (Diverse. Deep. ચક્રવૃદ્ધિ/Compounding effect of reading)
- Imagination (Source: Reading) (Improve by writing) (Tell stories to children) (Great films) (Travelling)
- Curiosity
- Basic vocabulary and Grammar skills (Source: Deep Reading)
- Ability to kill reader while writing
- Ability to remove nonsense from writing
What your soul needs?:
- Humility (નમ્રતા. મૂઠી ઉંચી માનવતા. ભ્રષ્ટાચાર આદરનારો લેખક ન બની શકે)
- Truthfulness (It upsets. It opens new world)
- Love (Immense love for living a moment. Observing life unconsciously. Being self.)
- Courage (of imagining and telling story.)
- Resilient (Critics, Rejections at publishing, Self-critic)
- Compounding at soul (Charlie Munger, Warren)
- Outsider (Not being part of any group)
- Basic understanding of drying and dying
Tools?
- Paper.
- Word file. Indic keypad
Readings on same –
- What I talk about when I talk about running
- On writing
- Masterclass by Neil Gaiman
- Brain picking
- Paris review author interviews
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