{"id":2980,"date":"2018-08-08T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:33:30","slug":"interview-with-proteem-bhaduri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/interview-with-proteem-bhaduri\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Proteem Bhaduri"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Proteem Bhaduri spends his days finding ways to translate brand and product stories into live experiences for people and generally thrashing about in the choppy waters of experiential marketing.
\nWhen he\u2019s not at his day job, he can be found dabbling in experimental cooking, reading \u2013 anything he can get his hands on, really, but preferably fiction (and even more preferably, dark fiction) \u2013 and writing.<\/p>\n

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Chit Chat Session<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us a little about yourself and your background?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. I took to reading very early in life, and I used to absolutely devour the written word in any form I could get my hands on \u2013 comics, novels, the newspaper, the telephone directory, whatever. While the writing bug only bit me a lot later in life, I\u2019m convinced it was the reading that laid the foundation for it. I truly believe that: to write, you must read. Of course, my love for words then drew me to English literature at Delhi University. For most of my adult life, I\u2019ve been overseeing the conceptualization and copy writing process in a leading experiential marketing agency, which obviously entails a lot of writing. At some point, I found writing fiction outside of my more formal communication was almost like an<\/span>
\nescape from the daily grind, and that\u2019s really when I first started thinking of myself as a story-teller.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did \u2018RUNAWAY\u2019 happen? Could you describe the journey?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. I started off with a blog which mostly featured rather embarrassing attempts at existential verse, and then graduated to several short- stories, a few of which got picked up by online magazines and garnered fairly good reader reviews. I then won a couple of awards at an
\nadvertising copy contest called Longhand, and from there on I felt I was ready to take on a full-fledged novel. After about a year of pounding away at the keyboard late into the night after work, and about another three months of brutal editing, Runaway was born.<\/p>\n

What according to you is different about your book?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. First off, there is nothing \u2018deep\u2019 about Runaway, there are no great messages to take home \u2013 it\u2019s quite simply the story of an ordinary man who finds himself trapped in an extra-ordinary situation, and his attempts to escape it, attempts which are sometimes funny, sometimes ludicrous, and sometimes downright outrageous. But the twists and
\nturns unfold at a breathless pace that I hope the readers find compelling, and it has well fleshed-out characters that I hope readers find themselves investing in, and thinking about well after the last page is done. Also I\u2019ve also tried to keep it topical and relevant to the times we live in, which, I feel, makes it quite relatable.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What is the most fulfilling part of writing this book? And what is the most challenging?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. Really, the most fulfilling part for me was to be able put down those 50,000 odd words that were rattling around in my head chaotically, on to paper in a coherent, and hopefully engaging fashion. The finest moment, for me, and I think for a lot of authors, is when you type those two magical words: THE END.
\nThe challenge, of course, was to do all of this after, very often, an exhausting day at work, or by giving up my social life on weekends.<\/p>\n

Any advice to writers that would like to be published today? How tough is it to be published?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. It took over a year of rejections and no responses from a wide array of publishers before Runaway finally found a home. Writers, especially ones who are just starting out, need to understand that we live in times where most people with a blog think of themselves as authors, so, essentially, there\u2019s a lot more content available for publishers to choose from, good and bad. So, persevere, and don\u2019t let the early rejections bring you down. If your work deserves it, and with a little bit of luck, you should find a place for it eventually.<\/p>\n

What is the next book that you have planned?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. My next attempt is at an anthology of short-stories all connected by a single theme \u2013 the darkness and strangeness of the human nature; that lives within and without.<\/p>\n

What are you currently reading?<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. My all-time favorite author \u2013 and biggest inspiration \u2013 is Stephen King. I just finished reading Outsider by him, and I think it\u2019s his best work in years. Currently, I\u2019m reading \u2018The Cabin at the End of the World\u2019, by Paul Tremblay, who I\u2019ve just discovered and am quickly turning into a fan of.<\/p>\n

Last but not the least, we would appreciate if you say some words\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>about our venture, writing geeks.<\/strong><\/span>
\nA. I think Writing Geeks is a great platform that connects writers and readers, or rather, since both those terms are inter-changeable, creates an ever-growing community of people who love stories. In particular, it gives debut authors a great opportunity to talk about their work to a huge potential reader-base, because telling a good story is one feat, creating awareness of it is another altogether. And I thank Writing Geeks for giving me the opportunity to bring my story to their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proteem Bhaduri spends his days finding ways to translate brand and product stories into live experiences for people and generally thrashing about in the choppy waters of experiential marketing. When he\u2019s not at his day job, he can be found dabbling in experimental cooking, reading \u2013 anything he can get his hands on, really, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interviews-authors"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/interview-with-proteem-bhaduri-01.jpg?fit=4167%2C4167&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/interview-with-proteem-bhaduri-01.jpg?fit=4167%2C4167&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-M4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}