While writing about my new book ‘AADITA’ that has just been
released, I started to reminisce about the first story I had written- ‘Repeated
Lives’. I don’t know what reminded me of it, but I did start thinking about the
joyous experience I had writing Talia’s story in Repeated Lives.
She was a girl who had everything, or so she thought. She
wasn’t aware of her destiny or how her life was going to change. The things
that happened when she relived her life were bound to happen in the previous
one, only she didn’t know that. She was living in blissful ignorance that
created an illusion of her ideal life.
When she relived her life, she had to face harsh truths
earlier in her life and realize her powers could affect peoples’ destinies in
various ways. The ‘what if I could have done things differently’ was explored
in this story and it was a learning experience for me too, although I hadn’t
know it then.
No matter what, you cannot change your destiny.
Aadita is by no means a happy tale. It is based on numerous
bullying incidents and cases of emotional abuse. Even though this story is
fiction, I couldn't write an ending where everything magically turns in the
character’s favor.
The main character- Raina- faces a lot of hardships until
she reaches a breaking point, but she does have the strength to stop herself
from going overboard. I won’t give away too much of the story, but what I will
have to admit is that this is one of the toughest story I had write.
It took me close to
three years to work on this because at one point I was ready to scrap it as it
had become too emotionally unsettling for me. I hated writing a few parts but
forced myself to as the story demanded I show integrity. I owed my characters
to give them a logical and realistic ending.
Unlike my other stories, this one does not have a crazy
twist no one can guess. Alright there may be a tiny bit of surprise factor in
it- It is a paranormal mystery after all. This is a story with many elements in
it. There’s romance, mystery, horror and drama.
And like real life where one must deal with all these
things- sometimes at the same time- my character Raina has to as well. At her
lowest point, she finds that on top of everything she must deal a ghost that
seems intent on hurting her.
When she finds out why, Raina has a difficult decision to
make in the end- another chapter that I had much difficulty writing. It was one
of those complexities in a plot that requires a plausible ending and that was
exhausting.
This story gave me many sleepless nights as I tried to work
on how to write it. This was going to be my first novel- length book and it had
to be good. The one thing that kept me working on this was because I had
started to sympathize with Raina and I can only hope the readers do as well.
So here it is…. Buy the book and read all about Raina and
how she solves the mystery while dealing with a bully as well.
Buy it from here.
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