What are the natural instincts required of an effective writer?
A writer should be a well-read person. I’ve always been a voracious reader and this reading habit that I’ve had since childhood comes in very handy when I’m writing. My ideas and thoughts flow rather naturally and there’s never a dearth of them. Besides you need a good sense of drama, which again has to be primarily inherent; only then can it be developed significantly. Why do you avoid writing dialogues? Primarily because I feel my Hindi does not conform to the standards required in writing dialogues for serials. Or let me just put it this way – I’m more comfortable with English in which I do all my writing. Besides, my strength as a writer is visualisation of dramatic situations, which has got more to do with screenplay. Do you plan out the ad-breaks when you write an episode? I do it only for DMNHC, where I mark the freeze points before each commercial break. What are the points you keep in mind while fleshing out the last scene before a commercial break or before an episode ends? S
