Scorpio
Having a story published at the age of 7 and a half – on my mother’s birthday!
Being shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2016!
I’m too much of an optimist to remember the low points
I have lists and lists of favourites
J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Julia Golding, Enid Blyton, Michael Morpurgo …
This is impossible! Books that come to mind immediately are: The Harry Potter series, Matilda Goodnight, Mister Tom, Journey to the River Sea, The Girl Savage. But if you ask me tomorrow, I’ll have a different list altogether!
I love rereading any book that I enjoyed the first time around, but top rereads are books that transported me to laughter and tears.
Only one? The power to grant wishes!
Always – to write better and better and better
Usually in the mornings when everyone is asleep. First draft – pencil and paper, sitting at my table. All the subsequent drafts – at my computer in a beautiful study. That said, another correct answer to the same question would be anytime and everywhere!
Silence!
I think readers and students would answer that better!
My first draft is always in pencil. I think it began with the idea that I could erase anything that was embarrassingly bad. But erasing is more trouble as an adult than I remember it being as a child.
Yes! When you send your first manuscript out, begin working on the second. That way, when rejection comes, it doesn’t hit that hard.
Varsha Seshan did her Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is a writer, teacher and dancer. She has had more than twenty stories published. In addition to writing, she has a passion for Bharatanatyam. She has studied and practised this dance form for 18 years; performing both in India and abroad.
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