Writer’sBlock
Anuvab Pal is a playwright, author, columnist, scriptwriter and stand-up comic. He has written plays like Chaos Theory, now out as a novel, and screenplays of The President is Coming and The Loins of Punjab. His stand-up show, Nation Wants to Know, continues in Mumbai and he plans to travel with it to Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata. He is currently working on a new play and a couple of Bollywood screenplays.
QDescribe your favourite writing space.
Overlooking a forest of some sort. Or a city. Should involve height. Me, at some height. Above. Not at the level of the city or the forest. That’s too noisy or too quiet.QDo you have a writing schedule?
Yes. Daily. With mixed results.QEver struggled with writer’s block?
Daily. And overcome with mixed results.QWhat inspires you to write?
Money.QDo you have a secret trick, or a book/author that helps?
I think of a character and then make him or her do things.QCoffee/tea/cigarettes — numbers please — while you are writing?
Double espresso. One GoldFlake Mini.QWhich books are you reading at present?
A biography of Lord Macaulay.QWho are your favourite authors?
Martin Amis, Ramachandra Guha, Julian Barnes, Tom Stoppard.QWhich book/author should be banned on grounds of bad taste?
Anyone with no sense of humour.QWhich are your favourite children’s books?
Anything by Roald Dahl.
