rise & shine: session #21
an interview with rudrakshi acharya.
Our Questions!
What is your name?
What is your instagram handle?
Tell Apricus Literary a little about yourself!
What sparked your passion to begin writing?
What do you like to write the most?
If anyone in the world could read your work, what do you hope they would take out of it?
What season would you use to describe your work? Why?
What’s the biggest creative risk you’ve done while creating a piece?
Now, the real question. Writing at night or writing in the day?
What’s your current creative obsession?
Her Responses!
1. My name is Rudrakshi Acharya.
2. @rudra_akaria
3. I'm turning 14 and I've been travelling since I was 6 months old, giving me lots of experiences with different cultures, which I believe reflects on my writing.
4. My passion for writing sparked when I started to read fiction. I could feel the words form into images of worlds in my mind, providing an escape from the one around me. I wanted to create something like my favourite authors did, something that people could relate to, and yet it was so unbelievable that it couldn't possibly be part of their real lives.
5. Personally I enjoy writing short horror stories, but I've been working on a longer, psycho thriller, crime-esque price.
6. If someone were to read my work, I hope it would convince them to never do anything alone. Togetherness is the pillar of humankind.
7. Winter. My writing displays darker themes, and I attempt to weave in poetic, systematic, inevitable destruction.
8. The biggest creative risk I've taken when writing is definitely incorporating my own experiences into my writing. Something I'd always hated was self-insert characters—because I haven't found one that was done well—and I've always strived for my stories to be somewhere to get lost in. I'm still working on adding personal experiences artfully.
9. At night, 100%. The deep night sky and warm lighting inside always gives me the best motivation to get my ideas down on paper.
10. My current creative obsession, I would say, is the dark. Whether it be something I'm writing or a film I'm watching or a painting I'm viewing, the dark just has so much opportunity to explore. Bonus points because I'm terrified of the dark and I always.