1. What inspired you to write?
It must be my love for stories which might have inspired me to write. I assume everyone may have read stories in their childhood, from fairytales to stories with lessons. I too used to read a lots of stories and had subscribed some children's magazines. I do not remember the accurate age when I started writing. Maybe I was 6 or 7 years old, trying to write a story as good as I had read in my favourite magazine.
I showed them to my parents and they encouraged me to write more. So, either it was a story on one of our travel accounts, or a story out of my head. I attempted it, but somehow always focused more on writing poems. That was my childhood hobby, not taken too seriously. But as I grew up there was this realization that writing soothes me. Whether in happiness or in pain writing, especially writing poems was an expression. After that more inspirations kept on adding, from other writers to awesome stories, to any competition, or a feeling to put down a particular idea on paper, or to try a new genre, or any competition, or even to learn more and excel. I would say everything right from my childhood magazines, my parents encouragement, to my mother's wish to see me as a writer, to inspiring writers and stories, readers, to be lauded, everything was and still is my inspiration; most importantly passion to write and desire to be appreciated.
2. What motivates you to write especially RagNa stories ?
This question's major part has already been answered in the previous question. Still, the feeling of happiness when I write; the desire to learn and be better; wish to get good feedback from readers, to grow inspires me. As for RagNa stories, RagNa are another name of love for me. I live love and life through them, their stories. RagNa; and AshNa as RagNa themselves are the biggest motivation. They are perfect for any and every kind of story, especially for love-stories. Desire to see more of RagNa motivates me and I am sure other writers as well.
3. Do you have a specific writing style?
I think I myself cannot be a good judge of that. But yes in terms of literary genres, I love to try every and any literary genre except over-dramatic, horror & hard-core erotica. I am still learning, so I am yet to try many genres.
4.If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Dan Brown, Jane Austen and Robin Cook the Most. Apart from them: Paulo Coelho, Enid Blyton, J.K.Rowling, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Danielle Steele, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Erle Stanley Gardner; Prem Chand, Harivansh Rai Bachchan.(Every writer whose work I haven't read till now, but he/she is the best!)
5. Tell us some thing about Charu...Likes / Dislikes
LIKES: -
1) Hobbies: Reading (Newspaper, Magazine,Novels, Non-fiction, Fan-fiction as long as it is not boring), Writing, Listening to Music & humming along, learn painting, "Bird-Watching".
2) Watching my favourite shows on TV,
3) Feel and sit close to nature. I can sit in peace even alone when I am in a beautiful place. Watch and feel wonders, peace of Mother Nature,greenery,butterfly,birds,mountains,everything.
4) Talking to friends
5) Drooling on Ashish Chowdhry and fantasizing about him.
6) EMA Forum and Twitter and facebook.
7) Watching travel shows, because in reality I don't like the journey part & because I don't have the opportunity to visit different places right now.
8) Season of Spring.
9) Lotus and Roses particularly in flowers, apart from other beauties.
10) Being on internet all the time.
11) Honesty in friendship, giving reasonable 3-4 chances to friends who wrong; then go away from those who still ditch!
12) Living without any interference in my life & not poking unnecessary nose in others' lives.
13) Dream of a perfect world. I wish people would stand for those in need at the right time, together because a lone fighter may lose, but not unity of many.
14) Yellow, Pink and White Colours.
DISLIKES: -
Judgemental people, people who have more interest in others' lives than their own, being forced upon to do something, Insensitive jokes, imbalances in anything; even in myself sometimes, my anger, crimes in society especially women related and associated helplessness, narrow-minded people. But there are some things, precisely some creatures I hate a lot: spiders especially the big ones we find here, lizards, and all those creepy-crawlies I cannot handle.
6. What 's Family to you ?
Describe your Family .
Family is life to anyone and biggest support system I think. The one mostly we take for granted but without whom we cannot live too.
7.If you had super powers what would they be and why?
I) I would erase all women-related crimes specifically.
II) Delete all problems of my life; and enter the program of a beautiful life for me, my family, friends.
III) Complete every wish and dream of mine.
IV) Erase all the flaws in my, in inner and outer beauty; and health.
V) Last but certainly not the least, control time and live one month minimum as Ashish's better half. ☺️ (I am sure God will not take this too kindly, otherwise I'd have happily continued it for rest of my life 😆)
8.Your a well - Rounded & versatile person .
To whom you credit your success ?
Is it? 😲 LOL, I didn't knew it! 😆 But any good thing in me & my life the credit would go to my parents first & foremost; God; then my siblings; my friends & foes who gave me experiences; and obviously to Myself also!
9. What's your idea of the perfect date?
Perfects dates are what two people make together.You see if only I am romantic and in good mood but my partner isn't and vice-versa, it wouldn't be perfect date! It's when two people are on the same frequency of time,romance, companionship,friendship, excitement and faith.
Place? Well, since I am mad and crazy for nature, where nature adds on to the good feelings in & around us. Or it can be our bedroom amongst candles, or only red lights and two cup-cakes & music; Or our living room; a restaurant/hotel to any place of outing; or even a coffee shop, Idea is to be ALONE TOGETHER, NO DISTURBANCE! Only feel each other and understand.
10. What's your favourite food, music, clothes etc .
FOOD: Anything yummy and delicious which is "Pure Vegetarian". It can be cuisine from any part of India and World, but I love Indian food the most.
MUSIC: Any kind of music as long as it is pleasing to my ears and heart.
CLOTHES: Both Indian & Western, whichever suits the place I live & work in, depends on situation. Not overtly bold though.
11. Who's your favourite singer / actors / actress - both Indian & English .
ACTOR: -
Indian: Actors: Ashish Chowdhry, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajat Tokas, Kunal Karan Kapoor. Actresses: Rachana Parulkar, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Deepika Padukone, Sadhana, Sukirti Kandpal & Mugdha Chapekar.
Non-Indian: Actors: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Cruise, Pierce Brosnan, Nicolas Cage, Robert Downy Jr, Ashton Kutcher. Actresses:Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, Cameron Diaz.
MUSICIANS/SINGERS: Indian:Sonu Nigam, Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Geeta Dutt, Sunidhi Chauhan, Mahalakshmi Iyer.Non-Indian:Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, some songs of Madonna, Shakira, Taylor Swift.
MUSICIANS IN "WORLD MUSIC"/INSTRUMENTAL GENRE: Indian: Upmanyu Bhanot, Pt.Shiv Kumar Sharma, Taufiq Qureshi, Pt.Hariprasad Chaurasia. Non-Indian: Yanni, Secret Garden, Richard Clayderman, Giovanni Marradi, Enya, Omar Akram.
12. Your favourite place on earth ?
Home Sweet Home.
13. Your dream vacation ?
Paris, Amsterdam and Disney-Land.
14. If you were to meet someone from this Forum whom & why ?
All my friends and close friends, because they're my friends.
15. Who's your favourite writer here ? ( ema)
I love all and take inspiration from all. But there are some names which always remain in my mind, for the perfection they have & I aspire to reach at. First & foremost mention to "Vidya, Preeti, Rockstarneha,Saanjh and Akira". They're at the top, simple!
I also love VISHESHA: "Queen of Suspenses", Vish I learnt so much from her. Marushkaa, for the different style & kind of stories she writes; Priya for showing every kind of emotion, scene perfectly. Perfect writer she is from romance, detective, thrill, any kind of genre! Aria, just love the way she adds Dramas, undoubtedly "Queen of Literary Dramas" in forum. Fuzz/angelpureness: for being the "Queen of Emotions", Barkha, anyone who has read her stories knows why! They're calm, different, simple yet thrilling, with a lesson and peaceful. "Rishu" for her humour and hottie stories. Neha for her dark and possessive kind stories."Arpita" for being versatile; "Deepika" for being super-talented!"Aruhi" for the exquisite details she shows and pleasant feelings she inserts in her stories. "Sugandhi" for the sexy, hot yet beautiful stories.
16. Are you a Student / Working
What are you studying ? / What is your Profession ?
What makes you choose this for a career Path ?
Completed studies, part-time work at present for preparation of exams. Advocate by profession.
17. Are you Single / Dating / Married ?
Happily Single...Yet!
Originally posted by: shahsb_26
Yay.. Charu...
I have question. .
1. What made you start with Celebration of Fates..??
2. How did story for Innevitable Beginning Clicked You?
3. What are other stories ... than RagNa.. have u written on?
😆 You want me to oust the secrets. 😛
1. What made you start with Celebration of Fates..??
Well, I was tired of thinking and thinking too much of technical & serious tracks. It was to give something lighter to write and something based purely on romance, with no angle of revenge or parallel hero/heroine/negative character in-between the main leads. So, since I am a Mills & Boon novels fan, I thought of writing something on those lines with RagNa twists & turns. Thus, "Celebration of Fates" was born.
2. How did story for Inevitable Beginning Clicked You?
Don't laugh 😳 and I didn't want to reveal this 😛 ☺️. But then it would have been unfair. This story is evolved out of a mini,incomplete,broken,almost only one-minute dream. That dream was broken as my Mum woke me up. But this idea was born out of that. Though now the story has evolved and grown much ahead of what the dream was supposed to be and this SS was supposed to be.
3. What are other stories ... than RagNa.. have u written on?
Hmm, actually I tended to focus mostly on poems always. So, whatever stories I wrote since childhood and later, be it for competition or otherwise aren't worth mentioning. I'll list only 2-3 of them, mostly the ones which are already published for public viewing on my blog: -
(A) Long back, when I was in my teens I'd sent a horror story to the makers of a well-known horror show, in a competition. I'd received a certificate for that and I proudly misplaced it.
(B) There is a story which I've even published on my blog and it is very close to my heart. It is titled "Whose World Is It?" It's dedicated to Mother Earth.
(C) One more story, one of few original non-FanFiction works of mine. It tends to be on romantic side- "A Journey of Words".
In Fan-Fictions, I had started a FF on "Raghav and Sia" (SiRa/RaSia) from Channel V show- "Humse Hai Life". The forum got locked and story remained incomplete because readers left too, they didn't visit FF Forum.
Originally posted by: abxetz
Ap ko different different story concept kaha sai milthe hai? 😊
How sweet...😃 Ideas come from inspiration and reader's feedback (especially good one 😉 ) is the biggest inspiration. You all love and support me, and I feel happy while writing, especially for RagNa. Thus it helps.😳 Besides any concept I think, kind of fits on RagNa. Sometimes even a song which I am listening to may inspire me to write on them (RagNa).
Originally posted by: _Santhi_
Meri bhi ek question
How do you manage to make us with ur romantic updates and how do u make us Bite our nails while we read ur Suspense Thriller wala update 😆
Santhi, I am lost in your awesome smileys. 😃 ❤️ Too cute. 😃 As for your compliment-cum-question MUAHs for this and 🤗 You all feel which I want you all to feel, thanks to all of you; and my work is accomplished. 😳 Happiness of your compliments and writing stories maybe the reason. 😛😉 😃 Once again, a big hug and love to you. 😃 🤗 ❤️
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