♡ Author's ending note ♡

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*people who are on twitter, I've done it there before. Dobara na parho😂🙈*

Since I always wanted to share my personal journey during #BaaziIshqDi so here it goes...
*That's a quite funny and frustrating sort of a person of me so, apologies* :p

I remember after ending my first, I thought of this plot and shared it with my amma first. Yes my Mom is the one who set some basic plot and synchronization with me. Then I slowly turned characters and shared my plot with a churail known as fameh. She supported her Wali .

It was summer 2018, April/May when I started writing Baazi on my notepad. Yes,I never used to write on laptop or word. I used to write on wattpad directly or on notepad apps in android. I wrote almost 7 chapters but wasn't updating yet. I just uploaded character's aesthetics when all of sudden my mobile got stuck with the app and my brother had to delete this app for phone functioning and straight away my hard work was drained out. I lost 7 chapters. Phone was ruined and lagging. I decided to quit Baazi.

I was suffering some mental issues. I lost motivation. Despite of that, I typed 5 chapters again on wattpad in laptop and the very next morning, wattpad account deleted all the updates. Profile showed empty story. Sirf itna dil chaha tha laptop utha kay zameen pe maar dun.

I honestly lost every single motivation to write the chapter when I wrote
Ch:1 "Yeh mera aaj hai" I didn't know what do I do there even now. But as promised, I updated at the end of July. I pushed myself. Beautiful people, Miru, Fameh, Madi supported as best as they could.

I wrote the second chapter again with a lot of hard work but it didn't get what I expected. I was a bit low but still tried best to be consistent and balance with the story line. Due to mobile dysfunction chapter 7 deleted again c'z i wasn't use to of writing on laptop.

I had done a research on Persian language culture cuisine, the Law Arts and business degree forms of Yale, places and rituals of foreign students, collected aesthetics but till 10 chapters, response was low so I started thinking that the storyline may be flawed or shaping..

I remember when Madi Fameh and Miru tried best to make me understand that not necessary you're always getting what you give in that very instant but trust the procedure, Baazi is gonna reach heights one day. Love u all.

Raaz e Rang proved to be game changer for this story! The chapter received most of the comments and stars and many new entries.

Azka- Zainab, this duo were collectively making cute stuff. Zainab made a silent and cutest entry to Baazi... The tables were slowly turning.


Sanji is constant from HAB and she was a beautiful spammer of mine in the initials. She still is ;) University era
proved to be a bliss. Lot's of new people came. Zainab used to be really excited and certainly I came to know Maria, Shafaq, Zunni, Desha, Farheen, Beera, Asma, and all of the new charms for Baazi Ishq Di.. everything was going smooth until Ruhaan's death and I got finals of semester.

I was stuck how to shape the upcoming storyline. Certainly was quite stressed due to finals. I took a break, was getting frustrated due to pressure and deadlines on twitter. I wasn't use to of massive fam so, everything was going out of control.

Certainly I tried to work out on pages and flowcharts, finally sorting out. What was really tough, to manage four leads side by side. Balancing scenes of four side by side. Handling the cons and elders side by side, not forgetting or making blunders.
Two couples, meri tauba jo kbhi zindagi mein ikhatey uthao😂! The big lesson I learnt. Meri cheekhain nikal gyi. Cz I did a lot of hard work for Safoorah Ruhaan. Ruhaan was extremely challenging to write for me. His response. His ways of perceptions. But competition came between two couples.
Aarish was the most easy going one to write out of  four. He was cute. But honestly, four of them made me write themselves in their own way. All things didn't went up to the preplanning so here they were. Then I entered 6 semester and my life turned into a disaster. 😂
8-6 was the timing of University and my routine and health collapsed suddenly. I got weak. I was doing overtime. I hardly managed to eat and sleep on time. Three times,I thought to leave this book in the mid way and that too on a serious note. I ruined one chapter in panic.
Then I wrote an important chapter of Safhaan's
confrontation and that too, with full heart and was ready to publish when the net connection got down and wattpad deleted my whole eff chapter. That was worst. This story has been deleted almost 10 times. And I rewrote it even till Fajar. Family complained.

Then One night, I just wrote down every proceeding plot on page and tried to type on word in laptop. The grammatical errors occuring or the spellings were irritating hindrances due to Roman Urdu but I managed. Then I tried to cover aesthetics, incidents as best as i could.

and here we are now.. THE BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR ME IS... GUESS WHAT?

I FINISHED WHAT I STARTED. I HATE TO LEAVE THINGS AND PEOPLE IN MID WAY AND I'M GLAD I DIDN'T. ALHAMDULILAH.
Bonus will be coming soon so that some missing parts will be covered surely.. :)

One important thing that I want to mention, is the addition of firangi (English speaking) people to this book. This is a huge achievement for me. Zunni, Ayeshay,I call her firangn.

Zainab- She needs a separate tweet to mention her efforts. Most of edits I used were made by her. I use to text just once saying 'yar zainab mushkil ho ri yeh dhoondo' and no matter what the time may be she's like 'bs 5 min dein!' Hashtags threads, what not she did to lift me up.

THANK YOU FOR BEING SO TRUE ,CONSIDERATE, SELFLESSLY LOVING AND APPRECIATIVE.

Not forgetting My Beautiful gaoun waley who made Baazi what it is today. All of you with your edits hype and posts literally burned the twitter with #BaaziIshqDi .This journey may have ended but it'll
always remain special to me. I learned a lot. Like a lot. This was not only a rollercoaster for Ruhaan Safoorah Zaira Aarish but for Nawal as well. This July would turn my bacha into 1year.
THE MOST SPECIAL EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE THAT GAVE A LOT OF MEMORIES

#BaaziLivesForever

{The purpose of telling you all of this was not to exaggerate the struggle or to gain sympathies but just to share the efforts that all writers, worldwide, put in for their stories. Kuddos to all of you!}

Love
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Sept 28, 2021.

In the process of editing, bonus 1 i.e chapter 37 got deleted accidentally. I have posted it at the end. Apologies for the disruption in alignment of the story.

I HOPE YOU SHOWER THE SAME LOVE AGAIN.

THANK YOU

Nawaal.

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