Shon Mehta

"Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine."The Timingila Attribution  Coin Image: https://www.cngcoins.com/ https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harshavardhana_Circa_AD_606-647.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

My novel is almost ready, and will be published soon. It took me about three months to write the story down, but the novel's characters have been in the back of my mind for longer than I remember — at least ten years.  Years ago, one of the characters (who I had labeled as a villain) spoke to me. "Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine." That was interesting, and made me think deeper about this villain in my story. So many questions: Is he really the villain? Who are his friends? Who is his family? Is he the main character, or just an extra in this story? Then, a few other characters walked out from the shadows. I dreamed of these characters. I wanted to know them better. I wondered about the places they visited, the food they ate, their failures, their glories. I kept jotting it all down. So many notes, and so many quotes -- after a while, it all became rather chaotic. So, to make sense of all this madness, I started writing the novel. Now, as the no...