Web of Love (3) - [Ch 69/70- P. 100] 30th April - Page 60

Originally posted by: ChandlerBing

I love this question and quite frankly can't wait to answer ir

Originally posted by: ChandlerBing

Wow, I already am rehearsing my answers lol, thanks Soph. All my life I have been preparing for an imaginary interview I would give when I become famous

Chalo, all that practice is going to be used somewhere.

(Question By PaintedSky)

If laasya told vicky the truth, is she wrong? May be the timing was not right... but he should know the truth and know his real parents.

This is my opinion and my opinion alone. I don't think Laasya is wrong. There was a reason for Laasya to choose that timing. Ten is a tricky age. She can't wait long enough till he is older to tell him. God forbid he would find out by himself and questions everything he had believed so far, or worse finds it from someone else.

If you remember the real reason Laasya tells Vicky was because a friend asks her to. Because Laasya observes how Vicky is treated differently by distant relatives. There is pity when they interact with him. They might not mean it, but the outsider treatment is something you don't plan to do, but it comes out. Vicky was young so he didn't catch on the hints, but soon he will, and there would be questions. Laasya told it herself because honestly the truth didn't matter to her. For her, Vicky is special because she is the Godmother of this child, her best friend's only memoir.

(Questions By Soph)

I recall Geet having a brother and a father. Do you think you will ever show her relationship with her family, as of now I don't think we have seen Geet's interaction with her family members apart from the episode after Naina's and Sameer's death, where she was sent to rehab even then it was tinsy winsy bit?

One of the reasons I haven't shown it is because there were too many characters at one point in Web of love, too many subplots. I didn't want this to be another "Suitable Boy (It's a massive novel by Vikram seth. If you ever read it, you would understand what I am talking about)

You would see a glimpse of their interaction but in the form of memories maybe, not direct scenes because as I said, I do not want to insert more subplots that would dilute the main story. That being said, WOL always made me like the characters in depth, although if they didn't have a meaty role in this story. Mina, hence got a story separately although we hardly know her in WOL.

Same way, I was planning to have a story for Geet's brother in future. Not his per se, but he will be a second lead something akin to what Vicky-Tweesha are in WOL.

But that's for future.

Is Vicky's truth the only sour point in Maan's and his mother relation? Tanvi's explanation to Geet in the previous to last part suggested otherwise?

Obviously, Vicky's wasn't the only one although that's when Maan lost respect. Sometimes you don't need a certain person to make a mistake after mistake for the relationship to worsen. Sometimes its your own outlook towards life in general does it for you.

(Questions By Priyank85)

How do you manage to write each one so differently? As you are doing Multi-Tasking and updating multiple stories one by one.

Although I like to give back to back updates once I'm in one story zone, going back to another story sort of frees me up. The pressure of wanting to finish a story sometimes makes me go blank. As taking a break from first one, I go to the second one.

In my mind the second one is just for distraction and hence no pressure. So it works.

About writing them differently, I honestly don't know. Usually the writing style or even the story tone by and large stays the same for most writers. I don't think I'm any different. But if you do think they're different then I take that as a compliment.

Which one is your favorite(Among your stories) ?

I'll pick three, for three reasons.

Web of love, because major sweat and time and energy went into it and also because many years went with it. 8 years. Can you imagine? So yeah, that one.

Ordinary story, because it is the first story with less gloss and more realism. It's one story which my best friend had admitted was finally relatable.

Last but not the least, Twines of the heart. If there's one story I'm super proud of and have super confidence on, it is that one

Which character is the most difficult to convince/write it down.

Dev and Tara from A bend in the road. Difficult to convince people because of the preconceived hatred readers feel for them. Most often than not, I was told that people ignore their parts and that they hate them no matter what they do now, because of what they did to Geet. It sort of gets difficult to focus when you're time and again told that nobody cares about them but then again, there are some good comments wedged between the negative ones, saying they feel for them.

That makes it a little easy I guess.

These are tough because of the circumstances and not tough to write as such.

But the male protagonist of Twines of the heart, I truly believe is work cut out for me. He's the hardest to write

Who is your inspiration?

Inspiration, well... Real people and not authors as such. Some characteristics, Some Traits I pick from real people I know of.

Do any of these stories/characters relate to you closely?

To be honest, no. Actually that's quite surprising because most of the times you tend to write characters just like you but so far there's not one character which is very similar to me. That being said, there is one character I relate to the most. It's Maan from Love, well almost. He gets his sarcasm And self depreciation directly from me.

(Questions By Crayon)

You have been writing for many years now, how has writing impacted you as a person in regular life and how, in return has the very change translated to your writing. Basically how did this process of interaction evolve over time?

I think writing made me grow up faster. I was so set in my thinking earlier, but then if you have to become a writer, you can't just write about people who are carbon copies of yourself, I guess. We have to write about real people with real flaws. And it is important to empathize or understand how this person thinks if you want them more real. So, I guess I have been trying to understand people different from me. If you can see the sort of characters I have been writing and the sort of romantic relationships they have even, it has evolved over time, from being the constant bickering to sharing comfortable silences and goofing up and having conversations.

From writing cut out characters like Maan of Web of love, the proverbial rich, brooding, handsome guy, I have gone to write Sameer, who is from a middle class but still perfect, and then Sisir, who had real flaws, who was self centered, and unapologetically so, who was relatively well off but spent everything he saved on buying back his ancestral house, who was shown by life that he was no different and that he can't stand beyond the biggest fear of us humans, being left alone. So yeah, I would like to believe although the gloss of romance is still there in my writing, I aim to write characters which are more relatable.

How detached and empathetic do you think should a writer be towards his/her characters?

This is a tough one. In the previous question I have told you, a writer got to be empathetic to be her characters. If you can't be a character, you can't make the reader believe this character. But then, it's ironic that when it comes to the story at large, the happenings of this character one got to be as detached as possible.

It is easier said than done. After a while, you sort of tend to like your characters and do not want anything bad happening to them and quite frankly sometimes we alter what we have initially planned to protect them, or by and large protect ourselves which cripples the story. So, I think it's a double edged sword. Be the character when you write them but don't bat an eyelash to slice their throat, is my motto. I have been trying to be as detached as possible. I wasn't earlier. I regret to date, about how I changed the entire course of a story just because I couldn't get myself to write the trauma a character would go through. I do not want to make that mistake again, so yeah, baby steps.

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