EXCLUSIVE | Prajakta Koli on turning author with 'Too Good To Be True' at JLF 2025: 'I have been writing all my life but...'

In an outlandish interview with Firstpost, Prajakta sat down for a detailed chat about the total lot you wish to learn about her new feather

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Prajakta Koli has dabbled with many hats in her occupation to this point. She’s one among doubtlessly the most a success and standard lisp creators and has moreover acted in movies delight in Jug Jugg Jeeyo and Neeyat. She has added one more feather to her cap as she turns creator along with her new e-book Too Good To Be Good.

In an outlandish interview with Firstpost, Prajakta sat down for a detailed chat about the total lot you wish to learn about her new feather.

Edited excerpts from the interview

What inspired you to write the e-book?

I’ve always loved writing, essentially. I never thought that I'd have the gumption to write a e-book, honestly. I didn’t think that I'd ever wake up one day and be delight in okay let’s write a e-book. I, throughout the lockdown started working on a pair of strategies. Romance myth strategies for environment up lengthy make lisp delight in net reveals or movies. And, I essentially have always loved writing, so I knew that I had to write romance. The e-book correct kind of took situation on the device, where when I started working on this particular myth, I started working on the entire writing around that as journal entries.

Because ahead of that, I’d never made delight in a myth pitch myth or I’d never worked on a bible or I’d never worked on a storyboard or any kind of a deck or screenplay for that topic. So I correct knew straightforward write tales within the make of weblog entries because that’s what I’ve accomplished all my lifestyles. And that’s the device it started. Just a few weblog entries in, I was delight in, this seems to be to be like a lot chapters. And that’s the device it started. As soon as I did add, introduced this on my YouTube channel within the June of 2023 that I’m writing a e-book, HarperCollins reached out and to boot they said, ‘You know what? Will we ogle one of the vital crucial issues that you simply’ve written?’ So I sent them the first ten chapters and to boot they most standard what they noticed. So they were delight in, ‘ what? We would must collaborate and we’d must submit your e-book.’ And I procure I correct lucked available completely. I had no longer anticipated that my first e-book could be by a creator delight in that. But, that’s literally how random this all used to be.

What were the challenges you confronted whereas penning this e-book?

Everything used to be a field for me, honestly. Exact the unpredictability of provide. I am so oldschool to kind of planning how I'm able to ship lisp that the proven fact that I'd sit for hours on some days and have absolutely nothing on paper after which in most cases I'd sit for thirty minutes and write two chapters. It used to be correct this dynamic unpredictability that came with the entire course of of writing a e-book that I wasn’t prepared for, however at the identical time, I discovered it very very thrilling.

I oldschool to essentially stay up for it used to be almost delight in of project that I don’t know what my mind is going to throw at me nowadays and that exercise I felt delight in that a part of my mind hadn’t been exercised in a terribly lengthy time so it felt moderately refreshing, however moreover it has to be one among doubtlessly the most no longer easy issues I’ve accomplished in my lifestyles ever. Everything about it used to be tricky.

Why is it known as Too Good To Be Good?

It’s literally the first establish that came to my strategies when I was working. When this regarded as the art of the of the myth came to me, this used to be literally the first title that I came up with because it’s literally what the entire myth revolves around. It’s about Avni, who’s my female critical character and Aman, who’s my male critical character. And Avni kind of spends the entire myth correct looking to establish Aman out, expecting him to drop the diversified shoe because he seems delight in he's too good to be correct and that occurs to be the heart of many of the chaos that occurs along with her emotionally, romantically. So I procure that’s why.

Your different of books and your current authors and why?

I’ve essentially had a in point of fact various kind of history of discovering out ever since I was a baby. I imply, obviously, when I was at school, I did the entire essential 5 secrets and ways seven, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, all of that. But I’ve moreover in fact, in fact loved autobiographies. I essentially have cherished discovering out The Diary of a Younger Girl. I’ve cherished discovering out A Princess Remembers, A Diary of a of a Younger Girl by Anne Frank. A Princess Remembers by Rajmata Gayatri Devi, An Depraved Boy by Karan Johar. I moreover had a essential Murakami phase where it used to be correct the total lot Murakami, one after the diversified. It started with Norwegian Wood, then went on to Kafka on the bid, men without ladies folk. When the elephant disappears, what I ponder when I ponder running or there used to be one more Sputnik Sweetheart.

There used to be one extra- A Wild Sheep Trail, I procure. 1Q84 vs Killing Commendatore. I haven’t picked one up in 5 years now. After which I stumbled on the magic of romance novels, contemporary romance novels. So I picked up this e-book known as Location on You by Amy Lea, after which it used to be correct the floodgates of romance opened up for me, and I haven’t stopped. I procure I’ve learn extra than 207 books since December 2022 and I’m essentially discovering out one correct now. It’s literally known as Love Memoir by Lindsey Kelk. And I’m obsessed. I procure I’m majorly in my romance phase correct now. So it’s been moderately various. It comes and goes, and I delight in that there may be no such thing as a one thing I in fact follow. I imply, I had an Agatha Christie phase.

How does it in fact feel, your move as an creator?

I in fact feel delight in I’ve barely begun. I essentially have one e-book to my establish. But I’ve been working on this e-book for the explanation that March of 2023. I’m talking to you in Feb 2025, it’s almost two years since I first in fact sat all the device down to write this e-book. I imply, this thought had simply about me in 2020.

But two years since I essentially sat all the device down to write it and on each day basis for those. All those months calm, it launched on the 13th of Jan this yr. I felt one of these fear, and nervousness that I couldn’t moderately bid for a in point of fact lengthy time. So now that it is out, first, what I in fact feel is help that I'm able to in the end detach because honestly, that total thing about writing after which rewriting after which discovering out again after which writing again after which in the end, you've your first draft after which you post it after which you gain your first draft from your editor. After which it’s all the device through again with the writing and the reediting after which the rewriting.

So, by the November of ultimate yr, I was correct delight in, I correct need this to gain accomplished. I correct need it to be out now. And now that it is, I in fact feel relieved. It’s moreover extremely validating attributable to the reactions that it’s been getting touched with. I am so gay with the total lot that everyone has to converse regarding the e-book. All individuals who’s learn the e-book and the type of reactions I’m getting are extremely re reassuring and validating. I’m on a e-book tour correct now. The form of responses we’ve been getting for each e-book signing are unexpected, to converse the least. I essentially have been doing this for ten years. I’ve been working as a lisp creator for ten years, however even then, I wasn’t prepared for this.

As I talk to you correct now, I’m sitting at Indore Airport correct looking to course of what for the time being has been delight in with the device that folk have essentially long previous out of their device to bid up and bid enhance and near seek advice from me so passionately about a e-book that is so shut to my heart. In actuality correct makes me in fact feel overjoyed and grateful and moreover a little bit of extra confident about writing my 2d e-book.

How no longer easy and exhilarating used to be the course of of writing your e-book?

You know, I learn this quote somewhere that said that writing is no longer tricky, sitting all the device down to write is hard . And that essentially spoke to me in extra programs than one. Exhilarating because in most cases no longer in most cases each time I wrote one thing after which learn it support, and it shocked even though it shocked me to a small level, it made me so gay that I was in a position to doing one thing delight in that. I imply, honestly, I essentially have been writing all my lifestyles however I never thought I'd have the heart to submit. I said this ahead of, I essentially have been oversharing on the Recordsdata superhighway for a decade now, however I calm think that once any person reads one thing I essentially have written, in its literary make, I procure that’s doubtlessly the most exposed and inclined, I in fact feel. I procure that’s doubtlessly the most one bears themselves to the readers.

Lachmi Deb Roy is the leisure editor of Firtspost, Network18. She opinions movies and sequence with a gender lens. Her interviews are known as 'No longer Exact Bollywood' because she takes big ardour in world cinema. OTT over theatrical releases is her preference unless and till its a King Khan film. She takes ardour in sort, food and art opinions too. ogle extra