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Another year is almost coming to an end. And that’s another year of me being an unpublished writer. Technically, I have many articles published on the internet, but my dream of having a book published has not been realized till date. I have been trying to make this happen since I was 16. But what happened?
Life Happened!
Education in my home country (India) was taken seriously. I was given the impression that the grades I scored in the 10th and 12th grade were the basis of my life. I wrote a complete book in my 8th grade and took it to a publisher. They said they liked it, but it never got published. When I was a teenager, I didn’t like the manuscript because it was ‘too childish’, so I destroyed it. After that, I enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering program for my Bachelors and life was hell. I had no time to write, but at least found time to read a book once in a while.
Once I finished school, I had to find a job. This was the most stressful part of my life. I was working jobs I did not like for a pay that wouldn’t even feed me three times a day. But I was fresh to the job market, and of course used as live bait. A couple years later, I got a job in a…
