There are moments in life when one feels a sudden urge of doing something. The decision I made in 2007 of writing this book was one such moment. It took me four years to finish the book, and I could still remember very clearly the years of writing it. It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing, not when one has a full-time teaching job, but whenever I had time to write, I would immerse myself in the world of my own creation. I suppose the best part of writing is to be able to enjoy the freedom of making things happen and bringing life to my characters.

While I can only live one life in reality, writing enables me to live many different lives in my own text. That’s the beauty of literary creation.

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Writing has always been my passion. Ever since I was a child, I had always wanted to become a writer. What happened when I was about nine had in a way boosted my confidence in becoming one in the years to come. I did not win a writing competition, but I wrote something that made money. When I was about that age, I wrote a lot of stories, most of which were short and came in installments. I compiled these different stories in an issue and I stapled them together, some with illustrations, to make them look nicely in a form of a children’s magazine. This happened in the pre-digital age, meaning I had only one copy of my own writing. To ensure that I kept the copyright, I let my friends read the magazine on a small rental fee; that’s how I first made a little money out of my writing. It was nothing, but as a kid, I was happy to share my writing with other people. I was happy to have a group of followers who didn’t mind paying to read my works.