Books
Scorpio
I am terrified of heights and yet I love mountains; I can't stand the sight of milk solids; I write because otherwise I would scream.
My words falling on deaf ears and blind eyes.
Having the courage to stare at a blank page and not blink first.
So many, by the grace of God... motherhood, getting published, traveling the world, setting up my business, finding a partner who makes every day a thing of joy, the pets, the strays... so many.
The death of my first husband.
Sir David Attenborough.
Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird.
Amy Dunne - Gone Girl.
Enid Blyton, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Dick Francis, Haruki Murakami, David Baldacci, Jeffrey Archer, J K Rowling, P G Wodehouse, George Orwell, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, the Bronte sisters, Agatha Christie... the list goes on, quite literally.
The Thorn Birds; Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows; Snow; Little Lord Fauntleroy; Pride and Prejudice
So many! All my top 5. Plus Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the entire Harry Potter series, the Malory Towers and St Clare's series, everything by P G Wodehouse...
Writing multiple books at a time.
"And here she lies, Her stories told."
Dancing!
The Republic - Plato
Early in the mornings, when everyone else is asleep; throughout the day, when everyone else recedes into background noise; I write in my enclosed balcony at home, or sitting on the floor in my drawing room.
Silence
And so?
Oh yes. There is a particular way in which I name my documents - abcd_1, abcd_2, etc.
Nora Roberts, Georgette Heyer
Tell your stories, be unafraid of your own voice.
Leena Saldanha is a storyteller, brand strategist and inveterate procrastinator. She runs a Brand Communication and Design Studio in partnership with her husband. And she spends all her time dreaming up stories, dreaming of telling those stories and then finally getting down to the business of telling them. She is grateful that her business is stories, so she never really needs to do the trapeze act of swinging from doing what she loves and loving what she must do.
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