Featured Interview With Arti Honrao
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Arti Honrao is author of fiction books ‘My Life-story’ and ‘Is This Love & Autumn – The Last Leaf’ and Novel ‘Resemblance – The Journey of a Doppelganger’.
She began studying medicine but realized soon that her real calling was writing.
Today after some ten years of blogging at Straight from the heart where her entire work is neatly categorized in Poems, Short Stories, Short Story Series, Fiction Letters, Sentimental Posts, Silent Night and more, capturing some breath taking moments with her camera, and sharing different quotes on her My Two Cents Page and having published a few heart touching stories she is glad she listened to her heart.
Most of her writings depict human feelings and emotions, which she tries to bring out onto the page and into the minds of the reader. She believes that essence of writing lies in not only entertaining the reader, but speaking to them through words. Her style of writing makes it easier for the readers to visualize the story unfolding around them. She is of the opinion that being good at writing a story is not about the story being unpredictable, it is about the way you narrate the predictable story and still keep the reader interested.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing when I was 12; got published in college magazine. A couple of times in JAM. When I was studying Medicine, on one side I had my medical books and one the other side I had a blank writing pad and a pen..
Whenever I got tired of studying, I used the pen to compose a poem on the writing pad. I became serious about writing at a later stage.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love reading Nicholas Sparks, Mitch Albom, Sidney Sheldon, Cecelia Ahern and a few more. Rhonda Byrne with her book “The Secret” has influenced my life in a special way. So has Eckhart Tolle with his book “The Power of Now”.
Though I am open to reading any genre, I specifically like Romance.
A few friends have said my writing style is somewhat similar to Sidney Sheldon, though personally I would like to be someone like Nicholas Sparks, a person who has the capability to touch hearts with words and bring tears to your eyes. I enjoy reading his letters and a few fiction letters I have written are influenced by them ..
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Resemblance – The Journey of a Doppelganger is the story of Sneha who falls in love with the man whose wife is a look-alike of hers.
Synopsis:
When you perform on stage in school or college days, you try your best to become one with the character you portray in the play. The applause from audience is the prize you get for your performance and dedication.
However, it is totally different if you have to play the role in your real life. Portraying someone else, being one with someone, giving your best shot to be that person is not as easy as acting on stage. And, the applause does not come. Silent gratitude from the person to whom it makes the difference and hostility from those who are offended, without you wanting to offend them, is all you get in real life for role-playing.
When Sneha sees Ajay for the first time, she is not aware her life is going to turn upside – down. She does not know she is about to lose her individuality and step into someone else’s shoes willingly. What seems like love at first sight for her also means facing responsibilities which she is not sure, initially, whether she is ready to accept. The intensity of her feelings for Ajay, however, finally makes her take up the challenge of role playing of a wife and a mother.
Resemblance begins with Sneha being exposed to the shocking fact that she resembles a woman she has never met before in her life, a woman who is the wife of the man she falls in love with. The story completes a full circle when in the end Sneha finally reaches where she is meant to be, being who she is really meant to be. She faces the hostility of few people, swims through the sea of emotions, accepts the challenge of life and battles the desires which take a toll on her peace of mind to finally fulfil her true purpose in life.
On one hand, Resemblance takes us on a journey of Sneha’s life and on other hand it also tells us about the depth of mother’s love for her child, which overcomes even the barrier set by death.
Read more here > http://www.artihonrao.in/p/resemblance-journey-of-doppelganger.html
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