Author Interview with Nafiesa

 

1. What inspired you to write this book?

The Unsaid is a collection of poetry over the last few years. I’ve always had this hidden treasure in my diary, but the last year (pandemic) taught me a lot about the uncertainties of life. Hence I decided to give these expressions a face and collate them in a book so that they can live forever.

2. Can you tell me about the book?

The Unsaid as the name says talks about the Unsaid emotions and expressions formed in poetry. The book takes you to a beautiful journey of a soul from the mother's womb to life to love to pain and spirituality. 

3. What surprised you the most?

I was surprised by the way the book turned out so beautiful expressing the pains and joy that one goes through. There is pain and joy in love, in life, in birth and death. 

The relationship of pain and joy is like two sides of a coin. You can’t have either of them, you need to experience both in any phase of life and that’s the beauty of it.

Without pain, you can’t know the joy you have. This book takes you through emotions of both pain and joy in each part of your life.

4. How did publishing your first book change your process of writing?

Writing comes either naturally or you build the skill over time. Publishing your book gets you into a responsibility of your work and so you write to either inform, entertain or share.

I used to pen my emotions down, but publishing helped me to be more responsible for my work. What you write and how you write from a readers perspective is very important without losing the essence of your writing.

5. Do you think someone could be a writer if they don’t feel emotions strongly?

I feel emotions make you strong and passionate about things in life. If you are not passionate about your work you can never excel in it. As they say, do what you love and you’ll never need to work. 

You may engage yourself in many things but if you are not passionate about the same you may not be able to completely justify it.

6. What advice do you have for other writers?

It’s too early for me to advise other writers at this stage of my career, but I would say to upcoming writers that nothing comes easy there is never a perfect way to do things right, once you start doing things will you start achieving and learning. Everything is a process and every experience is a learning.

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