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Chillibreeze Interview with Shruthi Rao
1. You started writing stories and won a prize for your first effort. How did that feel? The prize in the Sunday Herald Short Story competition came at a time when I had just decided I wouldn’t return to my software job, and was considering taking up writing seriously. This award was a tremendous boost to my confidence.
Ever since I was at school, many people, especially my family and my English teachers, kept telling me that I write well. I didn’t really listen to them and didn’t write much. Meanwhile I got a Master’s degree in Engineering, and started working. During this time, I began blogging and the feedback and love I received from my readers was overwhelming. More importantly, I discovered that I loved writing - putting my thoughts into words. My daughter’s birth gave me a reason to take a break from my job. I then realized I didn’t want to go back and that I’d rather write (besides caring for my daughter) than anything else. And that revelation made me happy, because I knew what I must now do.
I write mostly about my life, opinions, lifestyle, culture, parenting and now, about my daughter. 4. Tell us more about the stories you write for children. Do you also write scripts for plays etc.? To write for children, I feel that you have to think like one. It is probably not a coincidence that I felt the urge to write children's stories only after my daughter turned three or so, when I observed her at thought and play and started remembering my own childhood.
Yes, I tell my daughter most of my children’s stories before I write them down. It helps clear it up in my head. In fact, she was the one who inspired my story “The Story Lady.” She kept insisting upon a “new” story “now” and I asked her how she expected a story to just come to me from out of the blue, when into my head popped this story about a lady who sends stories down to earth from a cloud in the sky. I told it to her immediately. She loved it, and asked me to tell it to her again, right away. I did, then I wrote it down and sent it to the the Unisun-Reliance TimeOut competition. The story won the first prize, and the book with the story was released in August. 6. You also write for a resume company. We have a Resume Writing Contest going on. Any tips for our readers on how to write the perfect resume? A good resume needs to be a good “sales pitch,” so to speak. It has to portray you in the best light. By a single glance at your resume, the reader should be able to get all the relevant information about you – your skills, experience, what you are looking for, and what s/he will gain by hiring you. Adopt an active, confident voice in your resume, and quantify your achievements. Resist the urge to pad your resume - you will eventually be outed. Clarity of thought, content and language is essential, and the document has to be aesthetically pleasing too. Most importantly, keep it short, and double-check your grammar and spelling. 7. Have you ever faced the much dreaded writer’s block? How did you deal with it? There are times when I don't feel like writing - and that coincides with those phases when I don’t feel very communicative. Since I don’t work under deadlines, it hasn’t really bothered me so far. Trying to overcome a block can be frustrating. I just wait it out - eventually, it disappears. Check the results of the writing contest for the First Quarter, 2012 Related links: Chillibreeze Resume Writing Contest – Enter and Win Question for the readers:
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Shruthi enjoys writing stories for adults and children. Human nature fascinates her, and provides her with a lot of material for her stories, several of which have won awards. She loves books, music, food and travelling.
