In the year 2009 or maybe 2010, Timur Bekmambetov (you might know his movies “Wanted” and “Profile”), a film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur, announced a contest for the best screenplay in Kazakhstan. Maybe some of you remember that. I was crazy about that! I thought this was it! This is my opportunity to do something, to write and get noticed… Well, like my ex-husband then said: “Joanne Rowling’s fame is galling you”… Maybe it was true.
I decided to write a plot, and I asked my brother to help me with some plot twists. We wrote it and then sent it for that contest… and nothing happened!
Later, I decided to do something with this scenario. I started working on the characters, added more of them, intertwined some cases from my personal experience into it… and again, nothing. I am honestly still working on it. And I hope that one day I will finish it and someone in Hollywood would make a movie based on it)))
Then I wrote some fairy tales for my children. I added some morals into them too) Then there were a lot of book translations, and I did not write much.
But once, I had a horrible and weird dream, so I decided to write it down, and it turned into a readable story. As any other author, I guess, I have a lot of unfinished stories too… But as we all dream that one day, one of my books will become a bestseller and I’ll wake up famous.
My short stories might not be very popular or smash hit, but I write about some things that I experienced myself, and I think some readers will “dig them”. I think that writing is all about observation and then the
ability to put it in the correct forms of words.