Ask the Author: Irum Zahra
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Irum Zahra
Thank you so much for asking me this question.
I always use to read illustrated books of Ladybird for children and then Enid Blayton when I was in school. I started making up different scenarios and ways the story could have gone. My upbringing in my College was excellent in making children creative. So as I grew up, I started noticing beautiful and dark verses on the first pages of every novel and book and I wondered if One day my name and my words could be there as well.
I started keeping a journal after that. And here I am, Sharing all that I felt and all that I wrote with the world.
Happy Reading!
I always use to read illustrated books of Ladybird for children and then Enid Blayton when I was in school. I started making up different scenarios and ways the story could have gone. My upbringing in my College was excellent in making children creative. So as I grew up, I started noticing beautiful and dark verses on the first pages of every novel and book and I wondered if One day my name and my words could be there as well.
I started keeping a journal after that. And here I am, Sharing all that I felt and all that I wrote with the world.
Happy Reading!
Irum Zahra
Thank you Ram for this interesting question!
There are so many writers I would like to meet. But in this category, I think naming one would be injustice.
I'm a huge fan of Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson, and Gillian Flynn.
But Dan Brown, I'd love to meet him one day. He is amazing with his characters, with their emotions an their expressions while surrounding the story with facts and figures and I think he really makes them all come alive.
His 2nd last book *The Lost Symbol* was an epic win. I have read that book 5 times and I'm wondering if I should start again.
So what a good writer does, is that he/she makes the reader go deep in their minds and create an image that defines their reading ability.
With Dan Brown, You can create multiple images ad, Trust me, Improved every time you read.
Cheers!
There are so many writers I would like to meet. But in this category, I think naming one would be injustice.
I'm a huge fan of Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson, and Gillian Flynn.
But Dan Brown, I'd love to meet him one day. He is amazing with his characters, with their emotions an their expressions while surrounding the story with facts and figures and I think he really makes them all come alive.
His 2nd last book *The Lost Symbol* was an epic win. I have read that book 5 times and I'm wondering if I should start again.
So what a good writer does, is that he/she makes the reader go deep in their minds and create an image that defines their reading ability.
With Dan Brown, You can create multiple images ad, Trust me, Improved every time you read.
Cheers!
Irum Zahra
I think It is a bit of both.
Creativity comes from within. And at the same time your abilities can be polished through proper research, reading, writing roughly and then editing. So it is in it's final shape when your creativity and it's methodology comes together.!
Creativity comes from within. And at the same time your abilities can be polished through proper research, reading, writing roughly and then editing. So it is in it's final shape when your creativity and it's methodology comes together.!
Irum Zahra
Firstly, Thank you for the question.
Well I think that 'Soul' of anything, Human, animals, plants or even poetically speaking, soul of other things like rain, weather and sand etc.. they are all part of this great secret. And that great secret is revealed to you when you utilize your full potential, i.e. using your brain and using your heart.
When you say you're talking about 'Soul' you're merely scratching the surface. There is no one in the world who can 'Completely' describe what 'Soul' is.
If you want to study it, you'll have to study philosophical studies of so many amazing writers and philosophers like Sucrates, Allama Iqbal and Friedrich Nietzsche etc.
I suggest that you read Allama Iqbal's "Asrar.e.Khude".
I bet all your questions will be answered!
Happy Reading!
Well I think that 'Soul' of anything, Human, animals, plants or even poetically speaking, soul of other things like rain, weather and sand etc.. they are all part of this great secret. And that great secret is revealed to you when you utilize your full potential, i.e. using your brain and using your heart.
When you say you're talking about 'Soul' you're merely scratching the surface. There is no one in the world who can 'Completely' describe what 'Soul' is.
If you want to study it, you'll have to study philosophical studies of so many amazing writers and philosophers like Sucrates, Allama Iqbal and Friedrich Nietzsche etc.
I suggest that you read Allama Iqbal's "Asrar.e.Khude".
I bet all your questions will be answered!
Happy Reading!
Irum Zahra
Because Coffee is the cure to all issues Lol.
It makes you think that there is still something good in your life.
It makes you think that there is still something good in your life.
Irum Zahra
Every writer goes through this phase at least once in his/her life. And I think that it leads to a better understanding in your head about what you want to do and where you see your writing in the future.
I deal with this by three things:
1. Read a good book
2. Watch a television series
3. Listen to music
That's what keeps me going !
I deal with this by three things:
1. Read a good book
2. Watch a television series
3. Listen to music
That's what keeps me going !
Irum Zahra
I guess its true. But in some scenarios you must have real life experience to explain things from your imagination. When you write, you're actually combining imagination with your real life experience or perception. So yes, imagination is very important. :)
Irum Zahra
Coffee! I love coffee. And it's a perfect answer to all issues ! Haha. I mean, if I wake up from the dead I'm sure the first thing I'll do is ask for coffee.
Irum Zahra
The best thing, for me, is the respect that I see in people's eyes when I tell them or I am introduced as an intellectual person.
That is all I want. To be known as a person who writes.
That is all I want. To be known as a person who writes.
Irum Zahra
Always follow your words. You can read and be inspired by writers around you, but you should always follow your heart when you write.
Irum Zahra
I am currently working on three projects. One of them is based on poetry and the other two are fiction novels.
Irum Zahra
I read. Just as all writers do. I love reading Edgar, Sylvia and I am really inspired by the way Thomas Harris writes. I always write what I feel so that's what people would see in my poetry.
Irum Zahra
I always used to read these beautiful poetry written on the first pages of novels and I was always interested in old book shops. I started writing when I was in 4rth grade and I wanted to see a book with my name on it in a bookshelf, of several book shops and so I started collecting all that I have written for the past 5 years and began to compile and edit it, before the end of this year, I was happy with myself.
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