Entrance into the parallel world is easy enough. To stay there is the difficult part. I play God every time I write (as my genre is fiction). Like an Architect building a model of his house or township, I place my roads and buildings; trees and clouds; sun and moon in their precise predetermined position. I create the scene and the environment.

With a flick of my fingers, the world is dreary and dark or sunny and happy or breezy and cool! Utilising all the senses, I paint my world with fine strokes of little details to bring alive a world that you might have seen or envisioned yourself to be in.

Writing is not just imagination. It needs the preciseness of truth and the smooth blurring of dreams into reality and vice versa. A single word can push your brains into the tortuous alley of realism, or it can guide you into a smooth river of eventuality. All it needs is a change of syntax. The verbs, nouns, adjectives play such an important role in framing the picture, you want the world to perceive, that sometimes we do not realise that each is as important as the other.

Just as the plot is the skeleton of a story, the atmosphere is the flesh and bones of the narrative. The characters are the intrinsic features of the body while emotions are the used to drape each incident, and progression is the ornament to embellish each milestone of the story.

All the above factors are the creative world. A book needs much more. The multiple editing that needs to go into a work before it can be unveiled; the font; the placements; the cover design; the colour and the graphics, all need that perfection so that a work of beauty may be revealed.

Where would one be without the editor, the cover artist ,the graphic designer or the marketing team? They are the support that lets us take our creation to millions. Writers are also artists and which artist does not need validation for his/ her work?

As the cog wheels of invention move with well oiled precision, I wait and watch for the ultimate validation of audience approval!