1. Can you tell us a
little about yourself ,your blog(s)/website(s),and your aspirations and your
hobbies!!
I was born and brought up in Kanpur. I
completed my MBA from the National School
of Business- Bengaluru and International
Management from ESC Pau- France.
I always wanted to be a published author
and debuted with the novel, Without a
Goodbye. It is a woman fiction inspired by a real story.
I love listening music, travelling to new
places, exploring and experiencing the diversity all over the world.
2. How you first got
involved in with blogging/writing, are you an imaginative person?
My teacher, Alok Sarkar (HAL Vidyalaya) inspired me
to write. I was in class sixth. It all began with writing a ten line small poem
as an assignment.
For other students, it was only an assignment.
However, for me, it was something that gave me a new vision for my life. My way
to express my feelings, my companion when there is no one around. Writing gives me the pleasure and satisfaction.
3. What do you find
most challenging about blogging/writing about your topic?
As I say, every phase of writing brings a new challenge. Sometime
there are lots of thought running in mind at a time and
Finding a great title.
Completing a story I started
4. Tell me about some
of the people you have met while working on your blog?
While working on my book, no one knew what I was doing sitting all
alone in my room, late night. Once I finished writing and shared to my friends
and family about my work. Few of them were there to encourage me, and many were
there to de-motivate at every step.
It depends on us how we handle the positive and negative feedbacks
from others.
5. How would
(someone) describe your blogging/writing style?
My writing style is simple, easy for readers to connect themselves
with the flow and easy to understand the incidents happening in the story.
6. What do you do
when you are not working on your blog?
I relax and listen music or watch movies. Sometime I go on a trip and
celebrate with my friends.
I also read books on life, travel, motivation.
7 .Where do you see
yourself blogging/writing wise in the next 6 months, and 5 years down the road?
In next 6 months, I would be writing the
end scene of my next novel.
8. What networking do
you do that you feel helps your blogging/writing business?
Connecting with other writers, help in learning a lot about the
different genre of writing. Every new person I meet helps me to connect and
reach new group of readers.
9. How do you keep
coming up with material/content for your blog? Many people struggle with coming
up with different articles/posts and they only have one blog.
There are many stories around everyone. Each story is unique in its
own way. I meet different people, talk to them and listen their stories.
Everyone have a different tale to tell and in a different way. I try to bring
the diverse material altogether.
10. Whats your
strategy with your blog in general?
I write because I love writing and I have stories to share with
others. My focus is to reach as many readers to share my stories with them.
My strategy is to connect with the readers and find new on the different online
platforms and let the story do the rest of the work itself.
11. Any specific tips
you have for newbie bloggers who want to make it in the blogosphere?
Writing is not an easy job. There is a huge competition in today’s
literary world. So be true to yourself, write the unique, fresh content and
write for the readers.
12. What would you
prioritize? Content? SEO? Traffic? Readers?
My first priority is always content and then the readers.
13. Whats the best
thing a blogger can give to his readers?
Give readers a solution to their problem, let them relax by your
article and make them smile.
14. A lot of people
are interested in blogging/writing for the money earning potential. What are
some tips for people interesting in making money from blogging/writing? What
are some realistic expectations in regards to what can be made?
First, understand what the readers looking for in the blogging.
Write quality content that helps your readers and connect to them. A large
database of the readers/followers is very important. At the same time, a new
writer should not expect to make money immediately. Write as much as you can
and grow with the time.
15. What motivates
you most in life?
Self-satisfaction and self-confidence is the biggest motivator in my
life. When we love our work, we work hard regardless of anything.
16. What has been
your strategy for creating visibility to yourself and your blog?
Social media is playing the biggest role in establishing my
presence. Apart from internet, traditional print media is a good platform to
reach readers on a large scale.
17 What was the most
challenging moment in your blog content development process and why?
The most challenging moment in the book development process was to
find a great title that do the justice with the work and bring curiosity to the
reader’s mind.
18. Everyone has a
favorite/least favorite post. Name yours and why?
My each
project is my favorite. I do not devote only my time for my work; I devote my
heart, mind and my soul.
Even though, Without A Goodbye
is close to my heart as I am emotionally attached with it’s story.
19. Name some of the
bloggers whom you look up to and why?
I read books of authors of different genre. From last few months, I
am following Mrs. Twinkle Khanna’s articles in Times of India. I liked the way
she describe the sarcasm in the society.
20. What is the story
behind the name of the blog?
To understand the reason behind the title Without A Goodbye of my novel, you have to read it. You will come
to know reading the last page of the book that there could not have been a
better title for this novel.
21. Your connection
with any Blogger Network like Indi blogger or Writeupcafe or any other and the
experience?
I am in connection with few online writers group. It helps me to
keep myself updated with the new literary works and to handle the different
challenges during the writing work. Writers share their experience and learn
from each other.
22. Which genre do
you feel gets the raw deal?
I don’t think that any genre gets the raw deal. If the story is
appealing, no matter which genre it belongs to, people love it and it is
accepted widely.
23. Which one plug-in
would you suggest all bloggers to have?
Contact Forms Related
and Social
Networking plug-ins are the most useful to connect your readers and keep them
updated with your latest work.
24. Five adjectives
that describe you.
Simple, Reliable, Diplomatic, Talkative, Traveller,
25. What book would
you say has made the biggest impact good or bad on you?
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
26. Do you get easily
provoked by positive/negative comments??
Whereas
positive comments motivates, negative comments make me think what went wrong
and how could I improve it in my next work.
27. Do you plan to
write a book, as every bloggers dream it is?
I
dreamt to be a published author since I was in my high school. However, the
tight schedule of studies never allowed me to complete any of the stories.
28. Are you a
judgmental person, do you prefer to take sides instead of standing neutral?
I
always take side of what is right. Pertaining to some situation, I choose to be
neutral.
29. Your
collaboration with other bloggers, are you much into social networking, tell us
everything about it?
Being
a writer, I love to share my stories with others. Social Networking provides me
a bigger platform to reach maximum people and to share my thoughts and opinions
with them.
I
always welcome readers connecting me on social networking sites. You may find
me on facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin etc
30. What genre
attracts you the most and which genre you avoid?
When it comes to reading, I like reading mythological stories,
realistic fiction and love stories.
I don’t prefer to read sci-fiction much.
31. Your Views on
Contests and increasing plagiarism?
Contests are the good approach to find talented writers and
outstanding stories. But many a times such contests are used to copy the hard
works of others. And this is intolerable.
32. Words for me and
my blogs Desire v/s Destiny and Blogger Interviews and my Website www.MyMagicJobs.com
Desire v/s Destiny, Blogger Interviews and mymagicjobs.com provide a
great platform to the readers where they get to know about the authors and
about their book.
For the writers, these are the podium to connect with their readers.
33. On winning the
Award/s , Are they Really necessary.
Winning heart of the readers is more significant.
34. So whats Next in
your list?
Currently I am working on my next project, a love story, only one of
its kinds.
35.Words for your
readers and why they should follow you?
My stories
are from the real world stories, with the realistic characters and one could
connect and feel it.
Hailing from the land of sun, sea and beaches – Goa, Flexcia
D’souza is a passionate fashion and lifestyle blogger. Her immense interest in
fashion, food and backpacking has let her create a lot of content in these
areas. She has a great taste in fashion, loves styling outfits and modelling,
thus creating iconic fashion editorials. Also, she loves trying different food
and decoding recipes in her kitchen. She was recently featured in the list of ‘Top
10 Food Bloggers in Pune’. Flexcia is also ranked ‘#1 Food Blogger in Mangalore’
and ‘#2 Food Blogger in Goa’ by Zomato. Her interest in exploring rustic places
and offbeat destinations has taken her to some really interesting place which
she eventually features on her blog. Here are excerpts of our interview with
this young blogger.
Writing has always been a part of me. English was always my
favourite subject in school, and I loved writing essays and participate in essay
writing competitions. On a serious note, my writing journey began six years
ago. It was during my 12th grade that I started seriously writing to
get out of the exam stress (I was preparing for my Engineering entrance). After
that I somehow convinced my parents to not send me to an Engineering college
and they got me admitted in St Xavier’s College. So well, I joined my
Literature and Journalism course and specialised in Journalism three years
later. During my first year in college, we were encouraged to contribute
articles and feature stories to local newspapers and magazines. I had a lot of
unpublished work, plus writing came naturally to me. So I got published for the
first time five years back. And it never stopped. I freelanced with a lot of
publications for a bit, including The Times of India, Abraxas, etc. About
blogging; during my first year of college, we had a workshop on blogging. It
seemed so interesting and so much fun, that I started blogging from the very
same day. And it’s almost been five years since. Back then I didn’t know much
about blogging, but gradually I learnt the difference between fiction writing,
journalism, feature writing and digital writing. Last year I decided it was
about time I started blogging seriously. With help from my friends and
lecturers, I set up my blog www.flexcia.com
and I blog about everything that interests me – fashion, beauty, food, travel,
lifestyle, entertainment, etc. It’s been a journey of eleven glorious months as
a blogger.
32. Words for me and
my blogs Desire v/s Destiny and Blogger Interviews and my Website www.MyMagicJobs.com
Blog : www.flexcia.com
As
a reader, what I look for is the feeling of being able to relate. A lot of people
find some amount of comfort in reading a particular writer’s book after having
read the first one they’ve written, that whatever they release their next book,
the readers pick it up being sure that they’ll like it. I want to be one such
writer where people reach out and say that they were able to relate to what I
have written I want to be able to form that bond with my readers and as a
writer, I want to be capable enough to give them that. 
Currently,
I am working on my second collection of poems and eventually, I hope to explore
other genres/styles of writing. 
I started writing seriously in around 7th grade, and had my
phase of Facebook notes and WattPad before actually getting into blogging in
first year of college. It's been quite a rollercoaster. I've always been super
imaginative, so this was a great way to channelise it. 
