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?

1. Paper.
2. Word file. Indic keypad

Readings on same –

1. What I talk about when I talk about running
2. On writing
3. Masterclass by Neil Gaiman
4. Brain picking
5. Paris review author interviews